You may be surprised to find, in heaven, positions of honor occupied by Christians who on earth were members of denominations whose doctrine was lightly esteemed by you. [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Are there times when you feel like a failure as a Christian because you doubt, fear, you are weary, or even feel as if God is not listening and has abandoned you? You aren't alone. On occasion, even heroes of the faith have felt this way. Listen to... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If you were walking along a beach and you saw the words, "Earl loves Joann," written in the sand, it would be possible for you to conclude that the writing was caused, not by an intelligent being, but by the natural forces of wind and waves, snails a [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
One day last year, I awoke in a room that was not familiar to me. (No, not because I was abducted in mysleep and probed by aliens, and not because I was detained at an airport for looking like an alien, or forhaving a last name that sounds alien.... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Donna and I live in Maryland, and our daughter and her husband live near Richmond, sowe have occasion to travel Virginia interstates, where I've noticed signs that read, "SpeedLimit Enforced by Aircraft." If the signs said, "Speed Monitored by... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
During a household move, several years ago now, I was on one end of a bulky piece of furniture, backing into our kitchen from our garage. The fellow on the other end will go unnamed to protect his identity, but for the purposes of this article,... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I wouldn’t call myself a coward, necessarily. Let’s just say I’m careful. For example, as I’ve acknowledged publicly, even though I’ve spent a good portion of my life in Florida, I’ve never been scuba-diving, because I have O-positive blood; I’m a u [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
OK, full disclosure: There is a sense in which it could be said that not everything in the story of my “panda pandemic” happened precisely as I described it; in the sense that maybe I didn’t find a panda chewing on our kitchen’s bamboo floor, and in [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
As the members of our church are aware, our home is nestled between a high school to our west and a funeral home to our east; and as most of them have heard me say, “It’s like living in the middle of the Apostles’ Creed------between the quick and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
