I was living in Chemnitz, Germany in 1996, teaching English for the ABC English School as an interim teacher. The day was Kinder Tag (Children’s Day) and it was time to celebrate! All of my family were there, my mom and dad, my brothers and their families, my aunts and uncles, my cousins and their [...]

“You are to seek until you find, and once you have found, you are to believe.  Thereafter, all you have to do is to hold to what you have believed.”  –Tertullian I’m not sure how Tertullian died honestly.  I have learned that he lived through a pretty rough couple of years of persecution under Severus, but [...]

My dog is so funny.  This morning, when all was chaos, when we were trying to get our two adults and four children to their respective learning or working environments, our dog had an agenda.  She decided she needed to go somewhere too, which is not typically the case.  Usually, she walks you to the door and [...]

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie [...]

I was walking Brisbane around eight o’clock last night, just walking around our block, and a small prop plane flew overhead. I noticed the plane right away because planes flying over our neighborhood are rare. It was dark so the plane’s lights were on and one could easily hear its propellers. Even so, Briz didn’t [...]

Yesterday, while I was walking my dog Brisbane, I noticed in a friend’s yard a tree with a spectacular array of fall colors in its leaves, a tree which i quickly noticed was changing right before my eyes. As I watched the tree wave peacefully in the wind, I observed many of its leaves gently [...]

“It’s the thought that counts!” Really? Is it really the thought that counts? I told my wife the other day that I thought about sending her flowers on the first day of school this year to commemorate her new job. I didn’t send her flowers. Guess what, that thought didn’t count at all! My kids [...]

“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:18 Grudges are like festering boils, constantly irritating a person’s heart, and therefore usually a relationship between two people as well. A grudge at its core is strictly and plainly a [...]

Poor Pharisees. They really have gotten a bad rep, and for what? For trying their hardest to apply Scripture in an ever-changing Rome-influencing and Hellenizing world? All they were trying to do was what was right! Sure, they got caught up sometimes in their bad applications of Scripture. Jesus certainly got on to them when their applications became [...]

Surely everyone who has faith in God shares their faith in some way.  Some people naturally talk about their faith with others without even realizing what they are doing.  The concepts and principles of their faith are so dominate in their thinking and language that they can’t help it from seeping out.  Others map out and strategize [...]