3 Laws of Water-Skiing That Will Make You a Success at Life

3 Laws of Water-Skiing That Will Make You a Success at Life
I came across an article that I wrote several years ago entitled, “The Three Laws of Water Skiing.”  They are really practical and I use them everyday.
Here they are:
Law #1:  Hold onto the rope, lean back, and let the boat do the work.  How [...]

How Do We Respond to the Virginia Tech Massacre?

How Do We Respond to the Virginia Tech Massacre?
Like most of you I have been watching in disbelief the events that have transpired in the past couple days at Virginia Tech.  For me it hits home doubly hard because my youngest daughter is away in college.
When you see this senselessness, you feel helpless. The first [...]

Is God Obligated to Love Everyone?

Is God Obligated to Love Everyone?
I often hear the question, “If Jesus Christ is the only way to God, what about people in India or Africa or others who haven’t heard?”  This is based on two false premises.  One, that a person enters eternity, and is rejected by God and eternally separated from God on [...]

Today at The Gathering, April 1

Today at The Gathering, April 1
This weekend at The Gathering was the sixth installment of our series “Loving God.” We talked about “The Outrageous Joy of an Xtreme Freedom.” I related my visit this week to a state penitentiary. And what I took away was, from death row to maximum security, to all the [...]

How do you walk into a room?

I heard someone say recently that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they walk into a room.Some people walk into a room in such a way that says, “Here I am,” which basically means I’ve arrived and all the attention should now be pointed toward me. These are the people [...]

When Something Irreplaceable is Returned

When Something Irreplaceable is Returned

If you were at The Gathering this past weekend, you heard a story I told about my most prized possession – my grandfather’s cane. I bought it after he died at an estate sale for 75 cents over 33 years ago. The sad news was, the cane went missing. In transition [...]

No More Mondays

No More Mondays
Well, today is Monday, the traditional day on which people return to work.  Paige, my youngest daughter, returns to college after a week of Spring Break.   It seems a lot of people can’t stand Mondays, but I’ve come to look forward to them.
Monday is a brand new start to a brand new week.  [...]

Today at The Gathering

Well, today is March 4th, the second in our series, “Loving God Without Becoming an Arrogant, Self-righteous Know-it-all.”  Today I talked on “I Don’t Want to be Better, I Want to be Different.”  I knew this was going to be a great day when I began to hear the music.  Ken and Barbie Isham and [...]

Commitment in the Concrete

Commitment in the Concrete
Last weekend at The Gathering we talked about the importance commitment. Basically the things we commit to define our lives. But once we make a commitment, that commitment makes us, for to fail to commit is indeed to commit to fail. The problem I believe, in our culture, is [...]

Commitment in the Concrete

Commitment in the Concrete
Last weekend at The Gathering we talked about the importance commitment.  Basically the things we commit to define our lives.  But once we make a commitment, that commitment makes us, for to fail to commit is indeed to commit to fail.  The problem I believe, in our culture, is not that we [...]