I’m not referring to Old MacDonald’s place or the incredible Pierce Ranch just south of Wharton, Texas. I am talking about what’s for Easter dinner this Sunday. You see, we have a family tradition of having a roast leg of lamb after the glorious worship services on Resurrection Sunday. The rest of the year’s menu [...]
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America’s Past-time is about to get underway. Opening night for the hometown professional baseball team, sorry, for the Astros is Monday! I love going to baseball games. I really love the games at Disch-Faulk Field at the University of Texas in Austin. Back in the 80s, I was program director for a news/talk radio station [...]
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This week is likely one of the most significant annual events in the life of a pastor of a church. It is Holy Week, the week in which the incredible, triumphant and celebratory entry of Jesus into Jerusalem quickly shifts to a somber reminder that he needed to be punished, abused, spat upon because of [...]
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It is a stunning site. Most pilgrimages to the Holy Land include a stop at the Garden Tomb in the northeast quadrant of Jerusalem and outside of the walls of the Old City. As your tour bus gets off the main thoroughfare and turns into the parking lot, you see above you a cliff that [...]
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Men think the most essential part of communicating is talking. When we hear our wives say, “We haven’t talked in a long while” or “It seems like we’ve hardly had anything to say to each other”, we automatically kick the voicebox into gear and start trying to overcome silence with words. Unwittingly, we think we [...]
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“42And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45And they were selling their possessions and [...]
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It’s French for “say what you mean.” Don’t be impressed. I found it online. I do speak English and Spanish and neither one very well. You could say I’m bi-illiterate. So it must take some major chutzpah to write this post because it is about language. Specifically, it is about the attack on language within [...]
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Husbands, your wives should submit to you. WAIT! Don’t forward this link to her say, “Aha! Told you so!” That won’t get you very far. It shouldn’t, either. The first time you try lording this biblical truth over her will bring you much grief, grief because you will have failed to understand God’s direction for [...]
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It’s really loud. I don’t know whether you can hear it or not, but it is deafening to me. Let me prove it to you. The other night at the family dinner table I was passing the garlic bread from one person to the next—and it shouted at me! Screamed! Loud! It was trying to [...]
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I can appreciate a fairly wide swath of theological differences within the Christian Church. But there is one doctrine that is being increasingly challenged…and I can have no part of promulgating it. For the sake of appearing tolerant or non-judgmental there are many who make the claim that Jesus is the way of access to [...]
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