God and Animals
One of my earliest memories is being at a Texas rodeo with my grandparents. I was five years old, and they had loaded my older brother and me along with our four cousins in the family station wagon for a night at the rodeo. Shortly after the national anthem, I stood up in the bleachers […]
The Key to New Year’s Resolutions
It’s that time of year when millions of people make New Year’s resolutions or set goals for the upcoming year. God knew human beings would benefit from fresh starts and that’s why our calendar is full of them. But as we think about what we’d like to do differently in the New Year, it’s important […]
What Bethlehem Teaches About Feeling Small
As human beings, we are prone to compare ourselves to one another in every arena of life. We compare incomes, houses, automobiles, appearance, skill sets, talent, waist sizes, levels of education, and even children. By doing so, we think we have an idea of where we fall on the success meter. It’s a trap that […]
Don’t Lose Your Awe
One of the reasons our lives become boring is we lose our awe of God. In doing so, we settle for an existence filled with restless distraction. C.S. Lewis wrote in his book, The Weight of Glory, “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an […]