This week Bethlie and I celebrated our 25th anniversary. We have walked together through many stages of life. Friendship, courtship, and dating (“Dourting” if you put the last two together, according to one my friends!). Marriage. Newly-weds. Pregnancy and new born babies. Toddlers. Children. Teens and College kids. Successes and failures. Mountaintops and valleys. And now…
I love the book of Philippians. Christ. In. A. Man. In his book, Paul certainly illustrates what living the Galatians 2:20 life looks like. It is a life of purpose: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain (1:21). It is a life of pleasure: Fulfill ye my joy, that ye…
By now, you likely have read more articles and heard more debate about the NFL kneeling debacle than you care to handle! Are they right? Are they wrong? Should we boycott? Should we just ignore the whole mess? And so forth! While there are many issues surrounding this matter, one of them is certainly a…
The Potential of Standards Last week I wrote a blog post entitled The Problem(s) with Standards. You can read that here if you wish to do so. It was well received by many and not so well received by others. Of course, I was not surprised because the issue of standards always has the potential…
“Keep thy heart with all diligence,” Solomon wrote, many, many years ago. He followed that up a few verses later with a challenge to “ponder the path of thy feet!” That word ponder contains the idea of “building a road.” In order to guard our heart we have to build a road to purity. I…
