Over the last few years I have received a lesson in grief that I wasn’t looking to learn.  My mother passed away in 2021.  My brother passed away in 2022, and just recently my father-in-law passed away suddenly.   When my mother and brother passed away so close to one...

I have lived in Austin, TX since 2006 and I have noticed, as I am sure many have, homeless people are more visible in my daily routine.  A few years ago I heard that Austin allowed people to panhandle at the corner, so it was more desirable for people in Dallas or...

I am not necessarily looking to talk about a subject that is uncomfortable for everyone but an older man once said to me, “In the absence of saying nothing, people fill in their own answers.” There was a season of life where I thought, “We don’t need to talk about...

How many times do we think to ourselves, “I should probably give direction based on God’s Word about what this person should do with their life?” Probably not very often, right? Afterall, “Why should someone listen to what we have to say?” Colossians 3:16, “Let the...

Last summer our family was returning from our trip to South Padre Island. It’s the nicest beach in Texas, so we try to go every year. On our return home we realized we were short on gas and my wife said, “We can get gas at this exit.” But the gas station was on the...