You prayed for months, but things didn’t turn out like you’d hoped. Your daughter seemed to be doing so much better, but then without warning, she seems to have taken several steps back. You did the reading and studied hard, but got a “D”. You were in remission, but the test results show the cancer […]
During the first couple weeks of practice in August, the Arkansas Razorback football team held open practices. Anyone was allowed to attend as long as they weren’t taking pictures. As the team moved closer to the first game, practices were closed to the public and will remain that way for the rest of the season. […]
It was thirty years ago today that Al Michaels exclaimed, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” as the United States men’s Olympic hockey team beat the Soviet Union in the semi-finals in Lake Placid, New York. Yesterday, I was wiping away tears as I watched a program that took a look back at that 1980 […]
It starts as a normal Sunday morning. You misjudge the time and arrive at church three minutes late. Fortunately, they’ve started late again. You find a seat just as the first song starts. Fifteen minutes later, it’s not your pastor who gets up to deliver the sermon, but a guest speaker. As he speaks, you […]
A number of years ago, before God humbled me (which I needed), I would have looked at someone going through a difficult time and wonder what they’d done to deserve it. I wasn’t insensitive enough to say it, at least to someone’s face, but I would have thought it. The Christian life was formulaic for […]