In the back yard of my house grew a giant oak tree. It was a majestic tower of strength adorned with marvelous green leaves reaching 60 feet high into the sky. Large branches arched wide providing an umbrella of cooling shade for hot summer days. My dad attached a giant tire swing to a thick lower branch and my friends…
I will never forget the look on my wife’s face when I compared the way my son ran the football to the great Eric Dickerson. She looked at me with a blank expression and asked, “Who? Derek Ericsson?” “No...Eric Dickerson!” She had no idea who I was talking about. I told her how Eric Dickerson was one of the smoothest…
I get to do something tonight I have wanted to do for a very long time, I get to be completely irresponsible. I get to play an atheist in front of a group of Senior High students, and boy am I looking forward to it. I have never in my life actually entertained the perspective of what it would feel…
“I felt that I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.”Jude 3 My sister Gina likes to send me podcasts and videos that she expects me to watch and then comment on, and as her faithful little brother I dutifully comply. If I don’t I am afraid…
There were people who had trances. I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds.Daphne DuMaurier I have been living on God’s green earth for 54 years, and for those 54 years I naively believed that I had a right to my…
People of all ages love fairy tales, many of us have been raised on them whether it be Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, or Frozen. Somehow the story of good triumphing over the worst kind of evil speaks to every human heart. The writer Frederick Buechner believes this is also true because the Gospel itself is the greatest fairy tale…
My kids were hooked this summer on a show that followed the life of a sun bronzed surfer boy named John B. With windswept hair that couldn’t be tamed by his backward ball cap, John B. had a magnetic way about him. You can find his story on the Netflix show called “Outer Banks” and it is a simple coming…
My heart is breaking, for both my son and our country at large. Because of the current pandemic and volatility of the political climate we live in, my son’s college dreams of playing football have been once again put on hold. Like thousands of other college and high school athletes, the health concerns that accompany COVID-19 and the endless rounds…
When the first wave of COVID-19 hit the United States, Americans were generally sympathetic to the various lockdowns. Yes, we were likely to endure significant economic pain, but given how little we knew about the virus and how great the risks could be, we were willing to accept the cost. Trust wearing thin Now, after months of mismanaged responses, contradictory…
“Chesterton believed that a godly way of life is the best way of all ways. It's the way the world is supposed to work, the way the world is meant to be...So often, the church is viewed as this finger-wagging, don't-have-fun institution. Those of us who are in it know that that's a caricature, but that is the impression a…