One night a few years ago, I was at the local YMCA. There were also three young men working out near me who looked to be about 19, 16, and 12. This kind of thing happens all the time, and in that particular setting I don't usually initiate conversation with people I...
My son, Riley Davis, recently posted his pre-season college basketball Top 25 rankings. While previewing #9 Texas Tech, he dropped this analysis: My dad is the least-Texan Texan I have ever met. He grew up in Dallas, but is not a Cowboys fan; he cares neither for...
As many of you know, we've launched The Beautiful Marriage Movement, a seven year endeavor to touch 10,000 couples in our community withe life-giving resources and experiences designed to strengthen marriages by preventing crises rather than managing them. We believe...
Yesterday's sermon .... Was related though different at our Moss and Zoar Campuses, as Chris Thayer preached live at Moss and I preached live at Zoar. We used different scriptures and different pathways to get to the same bottom line (see below);In my version, jumped...
The best part of the Gods At War series for me as been the focus on Psalm 37:4: Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. We usually skip the first phrase and jump right to the "desires of your heart" part. Nope. "B" there comes after...
On Tuesday morning, I received this text message from a fine young man who is a senior in one of our area high schools: After I answered, "Limerence," I asked if he had it or if a girl at his school had it for him. "Neither," came his reply. "It's for a school project...
This is the 150th year of college football, which is kind of ironic since my most vivid earliest memories of the game surround its 100th anniversary. That year, Texas won the National Championship during a season in which its most epic game was a 15-14...
Yesterday's message ... Began dictionarily and ended Christologically;Referenced the sickness of an elevator music song with the lyrics "it's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along";Had ANOTHER shoutout to "you complete me" PLUS a wardrobe...
One of the most oft-repeated phrases in evangelicalism is "Christ-likeness." As in, "the goal of discipleship is to grow us in Christ-likeness." Or: "we mature in faith as we become more Christ-like." Or even at a memorial service: "she (or he) was one of the most...
Several years ago, I was speaking with a friend on the difference between exhortational preaching and evocative preaching. Exhortational preaching challenges. Urges. Implores. It is filled with phrases like “you should” and “we ought” and “do this” and “consider...