It’s almost 44 years ago now … we were moving to St. Louis, MO … Monica, Matthew, and my mom in our orange Nove … My dad and I driving the old red, International…

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Earlier in the week, as I was sensing my own initial weariness of the winder, someone mentioned to me how they are starting to go stir-crazy.  As the week progressed, the same theme was…

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This week I have been involved in a variety of conversations that included time spent with sins of Commission and sins of Omission.  While I do not recall being the initiator of these conservations,…

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Tuesday morning as I headed out for my morning walk, the thermometer told me that the temperature was zero degrees (with, fortunately, virtually no wind).  The football game the night before – well let…

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Wednesday morning we were reading through Ephesians 4 when we seemed to get stuck.  Not so much because the concept was so difficult, but that it was so personal.  In fact, rather than saying…

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I was preparing last night to author a Thursday’s Thirst that basically said, “I am taking the day off,” until I watched the first hour the evening news. Every news story was distressing – missing…

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This got me thinking of all the variations of the original Christmas story that we find in cultures and in the songs we sing.  Take, for instance, The First Noel.  The word “noel” long…

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It would always disturb my mother when I would say, “I don’t really have many – if any – memories of my childhood.” Though I grew up in a healthy, Christian environment and…

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Bob Seger fans will remember the lyrics. “On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha you can listen to the engine moanin’ out his one note song … When you’re ridin’ sixteen…

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I am far, far from the perfect husband, so those familiar words of St. Paul (who, I believe never was a husband) in many ways terrify me. “Husbands, love your wives, just as…

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