Saturday Mornings

I was talking with a friend today about life, and things that we would like to be doing...job-wise, study-wise, other-wise.  We agreed that ...

No one can know what secret inner ripening can come from suffering and sorrow. All we know is that every individuals life is priceless - tha...

Jesus continually communicated freedom -- not freedom to go your own way but freedom to relate to God through the intimacy of grace. -- ke...

We just don't know what will happen in life, we just know what's at the end.  And that should make all the difference...!

What's your 'take' on this subject? What are we translating to our kids regarding what they are facing into today's 'mar...

Beauty is often only considered skin-deep in our culture. No wonder we often live like that is all there is...because we seem to think that...

...even think of such beauty?

I DON’T PRAY to a sanitized God, an airbrushed God, the God of the silver screen. I pray to the God who put the green into nature and fire i...

I often feel quite self-conscious after speaking in church...which I did that recently. I put a lot of time into it and only a couple of pe...

A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does. -– Marcelene Cox

When is the last time you felt really listened to?

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind a...

Faith, to me, seems to be something along the lines of...the willingness to acknowledge the uncertainties of this life (uncertainties about ...

...if there were such a thing, what do you think 'emotional constipation' would be? Here's a stab at it:  The inability or unw...

The truth must dazzle gradually, or every man go blind. -– Emily Dickinson

...another fun day at Wrigley. Yes, they lost again.  But, the peanuts were good...they just seem to taste better at the ballpark.

The main problem with this culture...the thing that will destroy evangelical christianity in the next 25 years is it's willingness to be...

Draw on the surface of things in life, in order to go beneath it.

Never put a period where God has put a comma. -- Gracie Allen

The philosophers of old made reason the sole ruler of man and listened only to her, as the arbiter of conduct. But Christian philosophy make...

I often ask for 3 things: wisdom (to understand what is important and what isn't), courage (to speak or move, even when I don't hav...

Sympathy vs Compassion .  Which do you want more?  What's the difference?  Which is more empowering?

To love God is greater than to know him. -- Thomas Aquinas

They that know have grown afraid to speak. That is why sorrows that used to purify now only fester. -- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

To My Beautiful Wife, Tami, I want to thank you today, for being you.  I am so grateful for all that you are for us, for our kids.  For ho...

So, I was running with my dog the other day and he saw a squirrel in the woods to his left.  He started straining to his left, pulling me i...

Passed along from our good friend, Dave Terry: Imagine this scene if you will. Two babies are inutero, confined to the wall of their moth...

"Today we are reminded that as a nation there is nothing we can't do ..." as he hailed the pride of those who broke out in ove...

More good stuff from Eugene, click image for the NPR interview...thanks Tyler!

We are every day becoming aware of the costs of a life without rest. Increasingly, social workers, courts, and probation officers are raisi...

Good morning, heavenly Father. Good morning, Lord Jesus. Good morning, Holy Spirit. Heavenly Father, I worship you as the Creator and S...

Who is it that can make the muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually become clear of itself. -- Tao Te Ching ...

There is cause and there is effect. And, there is mercy and there is grace.

A shout out to Donald Miller for this one: A Portrait of Christ from Jeremy Cowart on Vimeo .

Hey, Michelle , thanks for the link for this from a thread on another discussion.

I've often thought of Mary, the mother of Jesus, through the eyes I think I would have if I were a mother. I think I have largely viewe...

Read this .... So, how many?

The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, man does not. -- Oswald Chambers

I have a 4-day weekend this week.  And, I am amazed at what 'space' does for my soul.  I often live so much of the time by schedules...

Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind. -- Ralph W. Sockman

Father in heaven, you are the absolute Sovereign over the shaking of the earth, the rising of the sea, and the raging of the waves. We tremb...

Just an observation within myself; such distinctions have been quite helpful to me in many ways over the years. But, of late, I have noti...

What a marvel it is to ask for and grant forgiveness.  Did you notice how difficult it is to NOT grant forgiveness when it is sought?  It is...

...the truth will set you free. -- John 8:32

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!" And h...

Do you ever wonder, at times, if something and what is happening to you...as you tumble on, sometimes lazily and sometimes in nearly catapul...

Somehow, you have to admire an aging man who moves towards people rather than away from them. See Andy's story here .

We have become so focused on progress, as if everything can be overcome.  We can get perpetually better, more able to solve problems...more ...

It seems to me that one of the great risks of the electronic age is that it flattens our world, our deeper sense of things.  Notice things l...

Find satisfaction in Him who made you, and only then find satisfaction in yourself as a part of His creation. -- St. Augustine

As I reflect on a journey of 25 years now with my wife, a few things seem to stand out a bit from the fabric of it all.  I am grateful for t...