Category: Spiritual Life

Both of our girls are home this week. Christine has been gone all summer doing an internship in Alabama. This is the first time that we have all been home together. It has been so nice. All of the familiar sounds are under one roof now. This year, Jamie will be a senior in high… Continue reading Make the Most of the Moment

I was thinking the other day about Quincy Carter (For non-football fans, he is now a former Dallas Cowboys quarterback). He was recently cut from the team while in training camp. Supposedly, he had failed his third drug test. Unbelievable! Here is a guy living out the dream of so many young people and he… Continue reading How to Feel Alive Again

I don’t know that there is any time of the month more valuable to me in terms of refreshment than July when I am away for vacation as well as a couple of weeks of study. On one occasion during the month, I stayed at a hotel where there was an atrium area near my… Continue reading Back Again…

Just a few more days and I am dis-connected for a month. I really look forward to this time of year. A time to be away for a few weeks of vacation and then a few weeks of concentrated study. Most of all, I look forward to time just to think and pray. (And–play) When… Continue reading You Can Become More

“Do-overs” are great! I remember being very young and hearing the expression, “Do-over.” Usually we were playing a game and someone would mess up and that person would say, “Do-over!” Many years later, as an adult, I was standing on the first tee box on a golf course. I hit a terrible shot and someone… Continue reading If I Could Do It Over…

Early this morning, I awoke feeling tired. Tired physically. Tired emotionally. Even more than feeling tired, I felt very dry. It has been a long, tiresome week (month) and I could feel it this morning. Sometimes when I feel dry, I don’t feel like praying and God seems distant and removed. Yet, I have learned… Continue reading This Morning

Last night I went to the first night of VBS. Organized pandemonium! I still like Vacation Bible School. I know it’s been around forever. I know that it takes a lot of time and energy. This year it is a volcano theme–kind of a Polynesian style setting. All of that is connected to the love… Continue reading Finding the Freedom to Forget

I am enjoying the marriage class that I am teaching on Wednesday evening. It is hard to go wrong using Gary Thomas as our guide in his book Sacred Marriage. I have especially been encouraged by the openness and vulnerability of the class. There is something about expressing the reality of marriage as it really… Continue reading A Great Way to Resign

Last night I went home feeling really encouraged. Our Life Group met for a discussion and hamburgers afterward. We had eight people present and several children as well. During our discussion, I was encouraged by the openness and frankness of our discussion. That morning I concluded a series of four messages on Habakkuk. I probably… Continue reading Encouragement

Go to most any grocery store in Texas. What brand of ice cream is typically featured? Blue Bell. What flavors! Homemade Vanilla. Key Lime Pie (had some the other day and it was great!). So many other great flavors. Nothing is better during the scorching summer months than to eat a burger just off the… Continue reading When Blue Bell Isn’t Enough…