My buddy, Hank, turned 60 last week (oops! if he wanted that to keep that on the down-low). His wife threw him a surprise party that Kim and I were excited to join.As the guests arrived, we all crowded onto the landing that overlooked the living room and waited for...
On Friday night, Kim and I watched the movie, Book of Eli. It's a post-apocalyptic action flick starring Denzel Washington that was released in 2008. The story tells about a man that God called to carry the last known copy of the Bible and "go west". It contains more...
If you are a regular to this show, you know that both of my kids got engaged this summer. It has been a wild and wonderful season, full of excitement, romance, and a family that is rapidly growing.James came out of the gate first with his proposal (actually, it was a...
I've never been a tattoo guy. I don't dislike them, they just aren't my thing. Well, at least they didn't use to be. That's where this story begins.For each of the past several years, I've set aside $500 for Erin and James to go on a summer adventure together. It...
For the past three months, I've been really tired. This isn't the kind of tired that you get from staying up late or the stress of having a lot going on. This is the kind of tired that doesn't go away no matter how much you sleep or how little you do. I have spent an...
Ding-ding-ding. The mechanical chirping of our Ring doorbell announced a visitor. I opened the door to find a very nervous young man standing on my porch holding a bottle of 12-year, single malt Scotch. He spoke as soon as the door opened. "Do you have a few minutes...
As a senior in high school who was shopping for colleges, I never considered sending an application to the local university in Chattanooga. I wanted to get out of town.I didn't think of it as running away so much as trying to figure out who I wanted to become. I...
Some mornings I wake up to a day that seems to have a shadow cast over it. They are nothing and nobody days. Nothing seems to make me happy and nobody seems to do things the right way. The cause may be that I am feeling bad, the world is wearing on me, or spiritual...
Do not think about a ripe watermelon, split in half and filled with seeds. Too hard because the picture is above it? All right. Do not think about the fork you would use to eat the watermelon. You thought about them, right? The pictures linger in our minds, totally...
80% of us believe in miracles - supernatural interventions that cause amazing, improbable things to happen1. There are all kinds of examples. Stories abound of cancer victims cured instantly, people surviving falls from dizzying heights, and dead hearts that begin to...
Each Memorial Day for the past several years I have taken part in the Murph Challenge. It is an endurance workout borrowed from the Navy Seals in honor of Michael P. Murphy, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan in 2005. "The...
I've been working on my next post for the past two weeks. I wanted to share God's message of love, peace, and hope with the world. After several drafts that really fizzled, I've kept looking for something just right. I wanted something better. I wanted something big....