My friend Craig wrote last week about the (short) life of his daughter in connection with a Dallas Morning News story on a couple who enjoyed every day with a son they knew would not live long. The story prompted Craig to say more about his daughter than I recall him writing in the past. … Read More »
It doesn’t look like I’m going to have much time to write about our long summer drive, not to mention the fact that I’m forgetting what I was going to write about. But I haven’t forgotten how beautiful everything was. Truly, the West is beautiful. (The East cannot compare.) I think that every state was… Read More »
Someone asked in the comments, and even if they hadn’t, I had planned on telling you. We listened to five books, of varying lengths, on our 4500-mile drive. O Jerusalem – with 22 CDs, my kids starting rebelling on this one. I didn’t make them listen to it, but put the audio only through the… Read More »
Here’s our trip by the numbers. 17 rides at Disneyland in 6.5 hours 14 people in our family photo 7 states visited 6 riders in our van 5 books on CD listened to 4 thousand five hundred miles driven 3 visits to the car garage 2 rivers we swam in 1 salt lake we floated… Read More »
My family is heading out west to visit my parents and brother’s family in Oregon later this month and on our way, we ‘re going to pass through Santa Clarita. I don’t know if any of our old IBEX friends are still around, but if so, Jenn Kintner has volunteered to host a little get-together… Read More »
If I’m a rock star and you ‘re one of the screaming fans in the front row, you ‘ll want to rush out to the newsstand and pick up the latest copy of Rolling Stone Adult Bible Studies Illustrated (Summer 2009). A five-page article features an interview with me and enough photos of the photographer to… Read More »
So, judging from the media’s reporting, how many books do you suppose President Bush read the last three years? A half? Actually, he read the Bible cover to cover each year. Besides that, he has averaged 62 books each of the last three years. That’s impressive, especially for someone with a few other things to… Read More »
Watch Ryan Ferguson recite Psalm 145. This guy has memorized a lot of Scripture. Here’s one pilot that you hope you don’t have the next time you fly the friendly skies. I think I started a new phase in life last week, when I started signing emails “Dad.” You thought you had every Bible, but… Read More »
So what do I do all week? Feel dumb. Last Friday I read hermeneutics and felt dumb. Monday I studied Isaiah and felt —-. Yesterday I studied the New Perspective on Paul and —- —-. Today in class, yup. Actually there was a bright moment, when, for about 10 seconds, I thought, hey, I’ve heard… Read More »
Katie, Bethany, and Mark