This will not be the first time I’ve been out of the country on the 4th of July. In fact, I’ve been away several times. It never gets easier. It’s like missing the birthday of a loved-one. In fact it is missing the birthday of a loved-one – my beloved home-country. […]

I love the line from a country song – “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” In spite of the not-so-spiritual story included in the song’s lyrics, I’ve long wanted to make that line biblical. It finally happened this week. Early in the public ministry of Jesus, he attended […]

We know that Jesus wept – over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41) and over Lazarus (John 11:35) – but did he ever laugh, smile, display a sense of humor? The Scriptures never say so directly, but it is often implied. How could he have wept in times of sorrow and not laughed in times of joy? […]

I dislike labels more than most people. I know labels are sometimes necessary. It’s just when we use them to slander another that bothers me. Someone asked me recently what I was and I replied, “I’m a male Christian Southern Baptist and depending on who you ask, I am a conservative, moderate, fundamentalist, or […]

Someone said, “There’s no free lunch.” While that may be true, there is free love, at least in a manner of speaking. God’s love for us is free, meaning it cost us nothing to receive it and nothing to keep it. God said, “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah […]