Home for the Holidays?

This Christmas, Ginger, Thomas and I are making our usual rounds to Memphis and Knoxville to visit our families. As we go from home to home (and eventually back to our home in Louisville), I think about what makes a home. There is the old cliche’ “Home is where the heart is,” and [...]

The Horror of Sin

A time is coming when the blinders will be taken off of our eyes. During the day when we see God, we will not be able to stand on our feet. As every knee bows and every tongue confesses, the entire creation will be humbled and the reality of sin and its’ consequences [...]

Thoughts on Heaven (Part 3) - Bigger and Better

Psalm 19 tells us that the heavens are declaring the glory of God. As I travel, I often show a slide show of universe slides in order to show the massiveness of God’s creation. Too often, we just look at our everyday world and fail to look up and imagine the awesome works of our [...]

Thoughts on Heaven (Part 2) - Just a Taste

As I was sitting in Dr. Ware’s theology class this week, he told a story from his youth that I would like to relay to you this week. On Thanksgiving each year, his family was allowed to eat breakfast, but they were required to skip lunch. Their mom’s thought process was that they [...]

Thoughts on Heaven (part 1) - Beyond Imagination

When I was a youth, I imagined heaven to be a big, golden box where everyone present sat around and sang from a Baptist hymnal. I probably would have tried to use some elevated descriptive terms to make it sound better but inside I was never truly excited about my eternal home.
As I have [...]