There’s a phrase, “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” The intent of the phrase is to indicate a person is so fixed on the minute...

Like so many things in life, value is both relative and absolute. In the arts, what’s valuable to you may not be so valuable to me, and...

Kim and I were members of a church in Irving that was a large church. It shared a parking lot with a shopping center. The anchor store in...

There’s an old joke that supposed to be funny. It goes like this: “If a preacher is spending Saturday night going over tomorrow’s sermon,...

There are a number of questions in the Bible that demand an answer. Questions such as, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9b) and...

Many years ago, I read about a young woman, newlywed, who decided to bake a ham for Sunday dinner. Her husband was watching her as she...

We might think that the choice between rules or relationships would be an easy choice. We all would say that we believe people are more...

It was a summer in the mid-1980’s. I had driven a group of youth from our church to Plainview, Texas, to attend a youth rally at Wayland...

Year ago, back in the ‘70s, there was a riddle that went like this. A man and his son were in a tragic automobile accident. The dad died...

I had six judges overseeing the Waco bankruptcy court while I served there. Some where there for only a few months or a year or so. I got...