Pride is one of those things that confuses me. Biblically it sounds like a bad thing and I can see why if your pride is about yourself to the extent that you seem full of it.But sometimes I am so filled with pride for my kids, my churches, or my friends that I just want to explode with joy. And I don’t think that feeling pride by seeing God at work in…

Usually the week after Christmas is down time for most clergy. After all the prep to make sure that people are able to spiritually celebrate Christmas, plus the stress of making sure that Christmas with our family is special, we are dead dog tired. I’m already kind of there now but I’m still excited about Christmas and waking up on Christmas morning to see the joy on my kids faces as they…

The gopher tortoise is a very important part of the local ecology. As in any food web, if you start taking certain flora or fauna out of the equation, then you can adversely affect the survival of that ecosystem. The gopher tortoise is especially important because the burrows, which are dug by the tortoises, also provide homes for other animals, such as indigo snakes, gopher frogs, mice, foxes, skunks, opossums, rabbits, quail,…

A creative pastor from somewhere in the cyber world decided to let everyone know last Wednesday exactly what a pastor does in a 24 hour period. He challenged fellow pastors to join him in Twittering every hour that day (for 24 hours if possible). We were supposed to tweet something that we did that was relating to our job. I joined in with the project and learned a few things along the…

A lot of people have asked me to expand on my new spiritual outlook on life having been ill and finding out later how close to death I was. I’d like to share some dramatic experience with you and offer advice on how you too can know this wonderful peace I have, but in reality I’m not really in a new spiritual place but rather my spiritual place just got a makeover.…

I know that some of you are up to speed on my current medical situation. I know some of you have no clue. I know others have misinformation. And others really don’t care. For those in the middle categories, here’s the facts: About a month ago I had a “procedure”. I could write a blog or even a book on the misuse of this word in the medical field. The “procedure” was…