We’ve decided to leave Houston a day early in order to escape the approaching winter storm. We know it will probably add up to little more than really cold weather, but the thought of combining Texas and Louisiana drivers with potentially icy conditions is sending […]
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I don’t know nearly what I think I know
I amaze myself at what I don’t know. We came to Houston for the week because we believed we were familiar with it. Not so. We drove around the downtown yesterday and I commented that the recession had hit Houston hard. There was hardly anyone […]
Excuse me God, You’re in my way.
I am at the Borders at the Galleria in Houston, Texas. How and why I am here is the subject of today’s Nick’s Walk. Rosemary and I are on “vacation.”We decided to take a few days alone after a hectric Christmas season. The plan was […]
After the amazing delight and liberty of realizing what Jesus Christ does, comes the impenetrable darkness of realizing Who He is.
How often do we get past the joy of salvation (What He did for us.) and into the complexity of relationship (Who He is.)? As a species we are generally not good at relationships. When someone asks us about another, “Who is that?” We generally […]
Will you go out without Knowing?"
It is a fine to say that we want to live a life based on trusting God; that we want Him as our pilot. Oswald Chambers asks “Will you go out without knowing?” Do we have the courage to step out each morning without a […]
What you do matters.
Yesterday I was listening to the first couple of chapters of John Bevere’s Extraordinary. We will be doing that study on Sunday nights beginning in a couple of weeks. Bevere begins with an Extraordinary but simple point. We can do nothing to make God love […]
2009 to 2010 He Still Loves Us
2009 is over. Thank God. Most of us are saying that because the year brought economic downturn, unemployment, political instability, government gone crazy, people gone crazy…just to name a few. Speaking of crazy, I think all of that’s a good thing..a God thing…signs He still […]
Happy New Year’s from 1969
Christmas vacation 1969 was the most exciting ever. At least it changed my life forever. 1969 was an eventful year. Nixon was elected President and Armstrong walked on the moon. It was a big year for me. I had joined the Navy in October 1968. […]