The Notebook

The answer is of course, yes. W O R K – four letters.  Maybe you were thinking of another four letter word to describe your job that wouldn’t be mentionable here in this blog. Let’s be honest, though, for many of us work IS a four-letter word. It’s something we’d just assume a...

There are three kinds of fear that you can have.  The first is surface fears. Surface fears are things like you’re afraid you’re not going to be able to pay your bills, you’re afraid you’re going to run out of gas before you get to the gas station. That’s a surface...

We’re quick to avoid murder, stealing, and drunkenness, but we often assassinate other people and leave destruction in our wake by the way we use our tongues. Husbands have stabbed their wives with words that are as sharp as daggers and wives have lashed out with tongues that cut and pierce. Paren...

This is not a spiritual post as such, but if you are from Tennessee or follow the Lady Vols basketball program it can be a "spiritual experience", if you know what I mean. Tennessee has always been and probably always will be a football school.  Don’t think that Tennessee is jus...

We all carry guilt around. We all carry the "If only"s, the regrets. Guilt builds barriers between you and God. I don’t want to get to know God if I feel like He’s going to judge me. Maybe you got the wrong message. Jesus said, "I didn’t come to condemn the world. I ...

Have you ever wondered why the Friday before Easter is called Good Friday? Most of the world knows that it is the day celebrated by Christians around the world as the day as Jesus was crucified. From what I can tell I’ve read that the word good used to have a secondary   meaning of […]...

This morning a federal judge refused to order Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube re-inserted, thus continuing her death by starvation. As I wrote about this topic several weeks ago, I basically equated what is happening with Terri as euthanasia.  What is happening at this very moment is that Te...

Have you noticed that common sense is not so common. It is actually a challenge to find people who have good old common sense. A lot of smart people are not too wise. They may be educated but they don’t have wisdom. They may have all kinds of degrees but they’re a wash out with […]...

Many people around the world have read Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life. As a matter of fact, it has been on the New York Times hardcover best seller list for over one hundred weeks in a row! The unbelievable thing about this book is that Warren is committed to given away 90% of his [&hel...

Luke16Jesus pulls back the curtain to help us catch a glimpse of life on the other side of death. This story is unique to the Gospel of Luke and is the only one to name any of its characters. Some commentators believe that this is not a true parable but rather a specific story much […]...