When Love Lets You Down

When I was a teenager, you could tell a girl was going steady by the fuzzy ring around her neck. And when our son started going with a girl, she just got his jacket; football jacket – the one he earned with blood, sweat, tears, and my money. But you could tell...

How Staying the Same Can Cost Us the Lost

So why did the American colonists win the Revolution? Well, it wouldn’t surprise you if you saw how the redcoats fought. They fought battles in the old fashioned European way. They lined up in straight rows. The front row shoots. The next row rotates in while...

Why a Life Collapses

The dam broke. Those are words no one wants to hear if they live downriver from a dam. But that’s exactly what happened near some small towns in southeast Missouri. It was just before daybreak when a dam on Taum Sauk Lake collapsed, sending a billion-gallon...

Walking That Final Mile

A while back I got to explore the world my wife grew up in. And I’ve been going to a lot of beautiful back roads. One of those was this road that she walked every morning to the school bus. She was only five, and it’s about two miles from where she lived...

A Manger and a Messed Up World

I love all the “joy to the world” and the Christmas electricity in the air. But maybe you remember a few Christmases ago, just down from the manger there were a lot of flags at half-staff for 26 Connecticut funerals. You probably remember all those little...