Last week I was driving down the highway on my way to a meeting about bringing Nick Vujicic to our county (Nick’s story is unbelievable, check him out at Life Without Limbs). As I was driving down the road my tire blew! This was the first time anything like that had ever happened to me while […]
This thought came to me the other day… “When your faith is leading your feet will follow.” You see, you and I will be lead by one of two things in our life…Faith or Fear. When faith is leading us it is a natural response for our feet to follow and go. However, when our […]
In my early twenties while living in Knoxville, Tennessee I was invited by a group of friends to attend the University of Tennessee’s Symphony Orchestra concert. I gladly accepted the invitation and went to the event expecting to have a good time listening to the orchestra but what I received was far more than I expected. […]
Like all kids our youngest daughter does NOT like to get her shots. However, it was time for her to get her next round of vaccinations and she was terrified. Remember her last experience, she dreaded the day she was scheduled to get her shot. My wife and I assured her if she was just […]
A father who was trying to teach his son the consequences of bad decisions had a ritual he did with his son. Each time the boy made a poor decision his father asked him to hammer a nail into a post. Each day that he made good choices he was asked to remove a nail. […]
Rabbi Hugo Grynn, was sent to Auschwitz as a little boy. In the midst of the concentration camp, in the midst of the death and horror all around them, many Jews held onto whatever shreds of their religious observances they could, without drawing the ire of the guards. One cold winter’s evening, Hugo’s father gathered […]
In the year of 1519 Hernán Cortés, with some 500 Spaniards, 16 horses and 11 boats, had landed on the inland plateau called, Mexico. The Spanish conquistador and his men set out on a conquest that hoarded great treasures. But, with only 500 men, who were without amor this would seem nearly impossible. The task […]
One beautiful evening an older couple were eating dinner at a fancy restaurant. The wife noticed another couple about their age sitting in a booth nearby. She saw the husband sitting close to his wife, with his arm around her. He was whispering things in her ear, and she was smiling and blushing. He gently […]
Jonah 4:1-4 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and […]
Galatians 6:7b “Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” This might be one of the most foundational scriptures in the Bible that has significant impact in our life. First let me say that this scripture is not an elusive idea…it is a concrete law that God set in place from the beginning of time. And […]