This week many families will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving. From the harvest feast in 1621 shared by the English colonists and the Wampanoag people to Abraham Lincoln declaring Thanksgiving Day to be a national holiday to 2025, the celebration of Thanksgiving has gone through many variations. In many gatherings, the practice of giving thanks will be overshadowed by football and food. In other gatherings, some families will take the cue of the day to share their thankfuln

Have you ever considered what your life would be like if God answered every prayer you prayed with a positive response? You and I often pray with little thought to the full consequences of a positive answer. We do not know what tomorrow holds much less a few weeks, months, or years in the future. As a teenager, I heard a sermon on prayer. Our preacher said that God answers prayer as "Yes," "No," or "Not Yet." He went on to say that a "Yes" answer may come with some revisi

THERE WAS A TIME when words kept violence at bay, when words were spoken in truth, when words were the value of a man, when words brought...

Last week I wrote about pastors that have made a difference in my life. With a new school year already started in some places and about...

Yesterday, our church in Colorado Springs, Vista Grande Baptist Church, called a new senior pastor. Joshua York is now the latest in a...

Four weeks have passed since my knee replacement surgery. I am doing well but recovery is slower than I would like. However, it is not...

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Dallas Baptist University is located in southeast Dallas very near the Dallas National Cemetery. When the Dallas Baptist baseball team...

Several friends and acquaintances have recently retired or are in the final stages of entering retirement. As I have heard their plans,...

I am writing this on Palm Sunday which is the official start of Holy Week or Passion Week. Palm Sunday recalls Jesus' triumphal entry...

Do you ever reach a point in a project, a vocation, or a process when you simply have to start over? Over the fifteen months that I have...

Many products today come with some type of guarantee. Some weight loss products make statements like "Take our product and you are...

Leadership has been a prominent topic for many books and countless conferences over the last two decades. I read my share of those books...

When I woke up this morning, the temperature was -5 and the wind chill was -15. Where you live that might seem unbearably cold or it...

That is a question that I remember my parents and grandparents asking me each year in early December. Eventually Santa Claus asked me the...

In the realm of churches, the month of October has traditionally been a time for Pastor Appreciation. I was blessed to pastor four...

Nicknames are rabid in sports. In fact, many of us would say with certainty that the nickname of some sports figures was actually their...

As I post this week's article, it is Labor Day. There is a reason that our nation established a national holiday related to work and...

What did these two couples have in common - David and Sarah Hiller and Philipose and Sosamma Thomas? Both couples were married for 88...

The Olympic Games of 2024 have completed their events and held their closing ceremony. Over 10,000 athletes from over 200 nations or...