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Submarines and Churches

Once when we lived in Snyder I was driving home from a weekend getaway. Somewhere outside Ballinger I was struck by a revelation. There on the side of the road, in the middle of West Texas … was a submarine. You read that right. A submarine. Not like a giant naval submarine but one of […]

Giggles

I hate crowds. I hate standing in lines. I hate overpriced tickets, overpriced food, and giant cartoon characters kinda creep me out. So why, you would ask, does a man with these feelings spend a week in Disney World? Why does a man who has all those cynical thoughts spend a great deal of time […]

Alligator Signs

A few years ago there was a report of a 28-year-old man who died in a possible alligator attack in Orange, just outside of Beaumont. This is highly unusual because alligator attacks are not that common in Texas. The last fatal alligator attack in Texas occurred about two centuries ago. The man, whose identity was […]

The Difference Jesus Makes

“It ought to be possible to live a Christian life without being a Christian,” laments Roy Hattersley, a columnist for the U.K. Guardian. An outspoken atheist, Hattersley came to this conclusion after watching the Salvation Army lead several other faith-based organizations in the relief effort after Hurricane Katrina. “Notable by their absence,” he says, were “teams […]

The Mission in our Backyard

There was a famous preacher story that circulated awhile back about the great evangelist, D.L. Moody. The story went that he had come back from a tent revival meeting where he reported that 2 1/2 people were saved. Whoever he was talking to replied, “You mean, two adults and one child?” D.L. Moody responded, “No, two […]

ENGAGED BY FAITH (How big is your God?)

In Joshua 9 we read of what is called “The Gibeonite Deception.” Basically what happens is this group of people hear of Joshua and the Israelites and realize they are on the list of countries to be conquered. So they devise a daring and deceptive plan to lie to Joshua and the Israelites and get […]

God’s Not Dead

I had a man in a church once tell me that God doesn’t work anymore. Period. He was totally serious. That when the last apostle died and the Bible was completed that the Holy Spirit just … retired. He moved to Florida I guess. Bought a condo and lives on the beach. Seriously though, this […]

Remember that one time?

I recently read an article from the University of Notre Dame Psychology Department written by Aaron Smith detailing the work of Notre Dame Psychology Professor G.A. Radvansky. Radvansky has been doing some very interesting, if not glamorous, work on psychology and specifically the psychology of forgetfulness. Radvansky was conducting various experiments in both real and […]

How Long?

If you jump into the book of Joshua, after all the battles, after Jericho and after the sun standing still; it gets kinda boring. I mean, Joshua goes from being a celebrated general to being a kind of “manager.” He’s passing out land assignments and helping settlers find their new homes. He’s supervising. Joshua is […]