The shift manager and a few fast-food workers strung lights and corporate themed ribbons on the Christmas tree. Once at my table, I noticed the cheerful soundtrack chirping “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” Was it?  Part of me always wants to push back on Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving and definitely before Halloween, […]

After reminding the church folks in Corinth that our sermons, rules, and knowledge are partial, incomplete, and as clear as a foggy mirror, Paul points us to the enduring, eternal, unchanging, everlasting, victorious values. Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three things—and the greatest of these is love. 1Cor.13:13 The Apostle Paul asks us in […]

We stood there in front of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World, listening to our youngest pleading for a chance to ride a real roller coaster.. We had ridden Goofy’s Barnstormer 70X7 times. The sign declared, “You must be this tall to ride this ride.” Even cheating up on his heels, Caleb stood an […]