Hey, the brown leaves in this picture are NOT moving.   It’s just an optical illusion, but let that be a lesson to us. Unless we have the wisdom to know better, our eyes often fool us into believing something that simply isn’t true. There is...

I was chatting with a friend today. In the course of our conversation, I heard myself tell him, “Ben Franklin said, ‘alcohol does not drown sorrows, but waters them, and helps them grow.’” He said Franklin was a genius. Of course he was a genius....

This is about the 10th book I’ve read this year. Not bad, except that I made a New Year’s resolution to read 25 new books in 2009. I guess between moving across country, starting a new job, having another kid, and taking time to make a bunch of...

“Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for to humble oneself? Is that what you call a day acceptable to the LORD?” Isaiah 58:5 One of the best parts about being a kid is that you can play all sorts of make-believe games. You can play...

During yesterday’s sermon, I put this image up on the Jumbotron as I preached from I Corinthians 9:24-27 about “Beating the Hell Out of Ourselves.” The scripture talks about the fact that in a race, many people run, but only one gets the prize....