I took Heather and the boys to lunch today at Chick-fil-A. They have a great indoor playground which Caleb loves. While we were eating, a nice lady came by and gave both of the boys a balloon. Later she came by with a small cup of ice cream for Elijah who is not yet old […]

Last night I started teaching a class I’m calling, “Jesus and the Kingdom of God.” It’s grown out of the Bible study I’ve been doing with our leadership team on the same subject. As a way of introducing the series I asked everyone to define in one sentence what they believed Jesus meant by the […]

According to the parables of Jesus, is everybody included except those who exclude themselves with unbelief? Or is everyone excluded until they are included on the basis of belief (faith)?

Yesterday I finished with my series on Genesis and now I’m getting ready to preach on the parables of Jesus this fall. I still haven’t decided which parables I’ll be talking about in the series.

Last Sunday night, Heather and I saw “Seabiscuit.” I had read the book earlier this summer and was really looking forward to the movie. I wasn’t disappointed. Seabiscuit was a down and out horse who brought together a broken-hearted millionaire, a displaced horseman, and a vagabond jockey into a family of sorts. Desperate people caught […]

In Waking the Dead, John Eldredge continues to build on the ideas hes introduced in his previous books. In this one, Eldredge hammers the concept of living with our hearts fully alive to God. His basic premise: 1. Our hearts are good (because of the what Christ has done in the New Covenant)2. Our hearts […]

I was mowing the lawn this morning and I looked up and saw my two boys watching me through the window. They were slapping the glass with their little hands and laughing it up. They were entralled with every turn I made, every blade of grass I shortened. As I looked at those two little […]

Tomorrow I’m going to float down the Illinois River in a canoe. The Illinois is in the far eastern part of Oklahoma. Before agreeing to go, I made sure we would not cross over into Arkansas. I once watched a movie that forever turned me off the idea of floating down a river in a […]

This week I’m preaching about Jacob. I don’t like Jacob. The working title for this message: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and George Costanza.

My ten month old just crawled up the stairs for the first time. A good thing.He then turned around and tried to crawl down them face first. Not a good thing.