Do you want a Thanksgiving that you and your family will never forget? If so, you may want to start a new Thanksgiving tradition. Let me...

College football fans are rejoicing as a new season has begun. Many of us have a lot of fun pulling for our teams and predicting the...

Have you ever felt like the Lord doesn’t hear your prayers? I suspect, at one time or another, many may have felt that God did not hear...

Do you remember being so desperately thirsty you would drink almost anything? Working and playing outside in the heat of summer demands...

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? Amos 3:3 (ESV) As summertime draws to a close, I remember my childhood summers and...

In 1970, my brother, Jimmy, returned from fighting in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne. I was only eleven and he was already my hero. One...

Did you know, there is nothing you do to make God love you more and nothing you can do to make God love you less! You may have memorized...

My earliest memories include my dog, "Ted." Although he was my Dad's dog I felt as though he were my own. While growing up, I enjoyed a...

The National Park Service (NPS) tells us the "Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 277 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent...

What are mornings like for you? Even if you are not a "morning" person, I want to tell you how to look forward to mornings! Most people I...

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You...

But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ (Phil. 3:7 ESV) 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the...

Jesus said, "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me" (Jn 10:27). Yesterday evening, I drove through Starbucks and...

What does it take to silence you? Four years after the fall of the Soviet Union, I found myself at a Baptist church in Siberia preparing...

When Jesus saw His ministry drawing huge crowds, He climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to Him, the committed, climbed with...

While living in Memphis, I had the pleasure of meeting a guy whose smile lit up the room. He’s the kind of person that always leaves you...

Many years ago, I was arriving home late one evening after working the second shift at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville. As I...

I smile when I hear people say, “And that’s what it’s all about!” A man catches a foul ball at a baseball game and gives it to a child. A...