A character in my book tells his friend that “perhaps I was trying to tell you something, but you weren’t listening.” I feel that way sometimes about prayer, except I’m the one who must not be listening, because damn if I don’t hear anything. It’s probably more accurate to say I’m not liking what I…

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Ever experience a situation where you try so hard to help someone, and no matter what you say or do they fail to respond? Experience teaches us in those situations that only some shock of life will awaken them. People that we can help will be drawn to us, and we will be led to…

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When I was a lot younger and played football, basketball, baseball and all sports in between, practice always began with drills involving the fundamentals of the sport and our position. In football, I blocked a hundred dummies for each person i blocked, working on my form. Each practice session of going through our plays for…

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Sorry for the delay. Suzy and I were enjoying a drive through the mountains and admiring all the flowering trees. This weekend and during Lent mediate on the changes that could occur if we really associated these words with their origins or definitions. Evangelism – one starving brother telling and assisting another where to find…

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