How to Keep Life Simple
I have too much stuff. How about you? I have too many gadgets and profiles to remember. How about you? I have too many tasks on too many lists. How about you? How can I make my life more simple? Have...
View ArticleWhy Everyone Should Leave the Church
The church is dead. The church is dying. The church is sick. Turn all the churches into community centers. Repurpose them into condos. Tear them down and use the land for something worthwhile. All they...
View ArticleWhat to Say about Your Valentine
When I was in grade school, I always hoped a certain blonde haired girl would drop a Valentine in my box. Each year from first through fourth grade I held my breath. I never got the Valentine. I used...
View ArticleHow to Find Silence in Your Busy Life
About a year ago, my wife and I were fortunate to buy a small cabin by a creek. It is a wonderful setting. Outside a small town, with a gently flowing creek behind it, and cow pastures in front, it is...
View ArticleGuns, Dunn, Race, Religion, and You
Guns. Race. Religion. Is it possible to have a conversation about these three things? Must the mere mention of any of them send a conversation spiraling down into a cess pool of innuendo and posturing?...
View ArticleWhy Submission Isn’t a Bad Word
The resistance to submission starts early. How many of us have heard a child say, “You’re not the boss of me!” Every parent understands, well, parenting and that ongoing shaping, molding, teaching, and...
View ArticleHow to Live Beyond Yourself
I watched Laurie Vanderpool hold a severely disabled young boy in her arms and proclaim that one day he would run and jump and turn somersaults. She had me at the way she smothered him with hugs and...
View ArticleCarrying Life for Others . . .
I often feel like I am a lousy Christian. I try to follow the teachings of Jesus and I try to be obedient in all the little corners of my life. Yet, I feel like I do not measure up to the “high calling...
View ArticleLent, Bubble Mania, and God
About six years ago one of my students challenged me to reveal what I was giving up for Lent. I told her, “I’m a Baptist, I don’t do Lent.” She said, “It’s not about being Baptist, it’s about giving up...
View Article3 Ways Baseball Heals Me
As a child growing up a St. Louis Cardinals fan in Missouri I always wanted to go to Spring Training. Years later when I lived in south Florida, the Cardinals moved their Spring Training facility two...
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