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Two Brothers A warm fall day found two brothers walking in the sand along the beach, each burdened with shovels and pails. Sitting back-to-back, they began building their dream castles.

Crossing the Line

Schoolboys on the playground often draw lines challenging each other to tell whose side they are on by crossing the line. Jesus once drew a similar line in the sand,

No Place I’d Rather Be

This is part of a daily devotion written by David Maxson from the Northwood Church of Christ. The reason I chose this is that it closely mirrors what I have

Blazing the Trail

During the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert lit up the small screen portraying members of the Ingalls family of Walnut Grove in Little House on

A Dirty Word

I once drove by a church marquee that read, “A dusty Bible means an unfed believer.” As I thought about those words, I realize they didn’t go far enough. They

Eating with Jesus

McDonald’s is the world’s largest fast-food company. But they don’t sell food. They sell fun, good times, enticing experiences. Parents, do your kids ask to go there to get burgers

Healing Waters

This week a group of our youth is at Big Bend National Park. One of my favorite spots to take the teens is to a natural hot spring found there.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti captured the tragedy of nineteenth century Victorian society on canvas. William Bill Scott’s poem Rosabell (renamed Maryanne) inspired Rossetti’s work. Scott’s poem tells of a boy and

Stages of Grief: Denial

REDEEMING THE TEARS I penned in a previous blog these words: everyone’s loss and grief journey is unique. The journey is not set in stone. Sometimes, the stages of grief