Devotional

One of the things that I love about each Thanksgiving is the thing that most of us think about – the turkey. From the Saturday Evening Post cover with Norman Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving painting to the memories of my own…

Well, Jill headed home to Oklahoma today and the house is quiet once again. But that’s not such a bad thing. Janet and I got our chores done around the house after they left and then took Lexie for a…

Jill is here in town for several days and I have had the privilege of working this year with the team that she leads down in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and even parts of Missouri. We were speaking about training…

We are entering the season when we are supposed to slow down and get ready for Thanksgiving as well as the upcoming celebration of Christmas. But instead of thinking about the beginning of these special times of the year, it…

I am not very technologically oriented. In fact, I’m pretty bad at anything having to do with computers. I am grateful, however, that our son Andrew is pretty adept at helping me in areas where I don’t really have any…

It’s that time of year when I always watch the movie Hoosiers. As you may already know, it is the story of how a high school basketball team from the fictitious town of Hickory, IN went on the win the…

It was quite a week-end. I was incredibly busy. For starters, it was parent’s week-end at Butler University and while our children are long out of college, our niece Emily is a freshman there. So we have tried to help…

I am the oldest of three boys in my nuclear family. Doug is 21 months younger than I am and Ken is a little more than 7 years younger than I am. When Doug and I grew up together, there…

It was ten years ago today, on Nov. 1, 2002 that our ministry initiative, Chaplains at Work, was founded. Several months before that infamous day, I woke up one morning and had the name on my mind. It must have…

Of course, the title of tonight’s post has to do with the famous line from Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz – a classic film still enjoyed by children of all ages. Lions and tigers and bears, along with…