I'm sure this never happens to you when you're studying God's Word during your quiet time. It must only happen to me from time-to-time, I'll get distracted. I'm not talking about being distracted by something life-threatening with the kids or a personal medical emergency or something of that nature. I'm just talking about my mind traveling to the things that I've got to d...

It is sometimes funny how the Lord teaches us. After having preached a sermon this past Sunday on how we're to count it all joy amidst trials of various kinds, the Lord seems to be intent on teaching me just how to do that this week. Has that been happening to you? I don't think that the trials that I've been facing are of the severe kind, but they're trials nonetheless. A...

Food, football, and fake plates. That's what a number Thanksgiving's growing up looked like for me and my family. We would often travel to Ohio to visit extended family for the holiday, and rather than sitting around a table, we would sit around the TV. Then there were the Thanksgiving hockey tournaments. If we weren't with unbelieving family members in a smoke-filled hous...