Image by john curley via Flickr I like the idea of Christmas traditions, but can you intentionally create Christmas traditions? Does it have the same effect as traditions that became traditions out of happenstance? When you say you are going to start...

We just returned home from visiting family that lived over 400 miles away. One of the cities we have to drive through is Knoxville, TN. Historically, our experience with driving through Knoxville has always been one delay after another. Even though...

I could list a lot of things I'm thankful for this year, but all those things point to one thing that I am most thankful for which is happiness. Things like family, career, health, and a simple life all lead to waking up and going to sleep happy and...

It was coincidence that I finished The Feast by Joshua Graves the week of Thanksgiving. It is a book that invites you to "feast" on selected passages of scripture and through personal stories helps you digest the ways living as Jesus means today. "The...

Growing up in my particular church heritage, I always heard that worship shouldn't be entertaining. "Entertaining" referred to things like skits, musical performances, puppets, and more. No one ever effectively made the argument that there couldn't be...