Last Monday’s morning manna, “Things Seen and Not Seen in Hurricane Harvey” went viral so I am told. This week’s Manna may well go the opposite direction. I am getting really tired of small-minded people posting on social media that the devastation of Hurricane Harvey and now Hurricane Irma is God’s punishment on southeast Texas…
Having grown up in Houston, I sat glued to my TV set for hours watching the recent crisis created by record-breaking Hurricane Harvey. There were several things I did not see via all the media reports: • No protests by radical groups. • No police abuse, shootings, etc. • No Confederate statues pulled down. •…
Last week I participated in the North American Prayer Summit in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada (the oldest and most easterly city in North America). Prayer leaders from North American countries, especially Canada, U.S. and Mexico met for four days to share reports and pray for their continent. It made me wonder about the possibility of…
One year after the fall, fractured pelvis, dislocated from the hip, trauma surgery, twelve inch stainless steel plate inserted in leg, hospital stay, rehab facility stay, twelve weeks immobile, home health care, twelve weeks of physical therapy, walking with walker/cane, complete hip deterioration, plate screws touching sciatic nerve causing leg, knee, foot pain, then total…
The voice on the other end of the phone line said, “God wants us to minister to you and your wife.” It was a voice that I had not heard in many years, but it belonged to one who had re-connected with me on social media. My wife had just undergone her second major surgery…
The picture is black & white, faded a bit, with torn edges, survivor of six decades. It is a group of Royal Ambassadors, standing in front of their church family, receiving recognition for their accomplishments, proudly claiming to be “Ambassadors for Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:20). Standing next to me in the picture, is my friend,…
When we get that for which we pray, we say God answered our prayer. When we fail to get that for which we pray, we say, God didn’t answer our prayer. Is it possible that God answered your prayer by saying, “no?” When some would-be followers of Jesus requested to first bury their father, the…
Have you ever returned to a place that was once home, only to be surprised as to how much it had changed? I did so recently (I have twelve cities that I have called home for a time). Proud of the progress, I was likewise sad that much of the old was either gone or…
Yesterday I began my twenty-fourth interim pastorate. As far as I know, all have been thankful for my service, but not all have expressed their thanks the same way. On the next to last Sunday at a small church, my watch broke, so on the final Sunday they presented me with a very expensive watch,…
The first nurse I ever met was Inez Gilliam Crawford at Kings Daughters Hospital in Temple, Texas. She was my mother and that’s where I was born. The most recent nurse I met was last week at the Texas Health Hospital Clearfork Surgery Center where my wife was having hip replacement surgery. Separated by decades,…