When I start thinking about what I’m thankful for, it all gets garbled with the normal things: God, family…oatmeal with peanut butter. The things I’ve been given, which I deeply appreciate.
Today, I’m thinking about a few things that God, in His tender and kind grace, didn’t allow to happen, when by all means they should [...]
I have donned the cape of Middle Aged Man for the last time. Last Sunday ended my run with the “Lesser Known Super Heroes”. I will no longer fight crime next to Poultry Man, Accordion Man and Sopapilla Woman. It’s not likely I’ll be that missed. I think this crime-fighting band has come out of [...]
I have a Blackberry or Crackberry or whatever you want to call it. I resisted for a long time. I had so any friends that were hopelessly addicted and that couldn’t carry on a conversation without looking down at that little screen every two minutes. I even had a friend end up in two casts [...]
This message of grace isn’t everywhere yet. We work everyday to see it spread so that people who have lived under a rules based theology can experience the freedom in Christ that he worked so hard to convey to us while he walked the Earth. And it’s spreading! Lives are being changed, people are being [...]
Several weeks ago I was on facebook, instant messaging with a really funny and great guy named Dave Burchett. He’s a writer, blogger and television producer for the Texas Rangers baseball games. Anyway, in the middle of our conversation he wrote these words:
“Hey John, my 1-year Grace Anniversary was this week.”
I stopped typing, took my [...]
For years, and I mean years, I have heard Bill Thrall talk about the fact that it’s less about the sin than it is about the permission I give myself to sin. I have to tell you it sounds really cool when Bill says it. He puts the emphasis in the right place; he makes [...]