A Good Shepherd friend recently took a trip out west and brought this back as a memento for me. It's nice to serve a church filled with people who "get" how you think, talk, and live.

Sunday's message began and ended with the subject of GOATS -- Greatest Of All Time. I explained that just because Genesis 1 is the GOAT of creation hymns, that doesn't mean it is the GOAT of scientific explanations of the universe's origins. That's not its intent....

Yesterday's message ... Revolved around genre, history, library, and art in its understanding of Genesis 1; Acknowledged that many people hearing it had left the faith or were considering leaving the faith because of a perceived conflict between Genesis and science;...

Thank God For Science  For a long time, it seems, people have been presented with a choice: Believe in the bible.  Or believe in science.  You can’t do both. Just think about all the dilemmas! How old is the universe? When did life begin?  Where did the human race...

I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade when this one was taken. I remember I LOVED that yellow shirt. I remember this has a carefree time.  Until I heard from one of my friends from back in that time, a guy who I hadn't had any contact with in 40 years or so.  He wrote, "I...

From the ages of 8-18, I had one goal in life: to become the number one tennis player my age in the state of Texas. The good news is that it actually happened. After a string of second place finishes, I finally won it all when I was 17.  Here's a backhand from that...

It's almost sacreligious to say, but I've never been an especially ardent fan of the Beatles.  While I admit that they are by far the most influential and enduring of all rock bands, my personal tastes have leaned more towards the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and...

Yesterday's message .... Wrapped up the "Up In Arms" series; Began with Scripture as opposed to anecdotes or concepts; The Scripture with which it began was Jesus turning over the tables in the temple in Mark 11; Landed at this bottom, in the form of a question:  Who...

What a journey in Up In Arms. We started out by realizing together that the people who yell the loudest have the most to hide.  Then it was you justify your anger when you can't justify your behavior. Then last week Wayne Hobson brought down the house with a message...

If you've been following the Australian Open at all, then you may have noticed that the featured matches are played on something called Rod Laver Arena. Laver, for those uninitiated in the ways of tennis, was a pro player from Australia who won all four Grand Slam...