What an interesting assortment of text messages and Facebook Direct Messages I received yesterday. Here are the top five, keeping the authors/senders anonymous (with one exception): 5.  “There were so many times (during your Sunday sermon) that I wanted to throw my hand up and say, ‘Hell YES, Talbot!’ . . . but the church Read the full article…

Much of my early preparation for yesterday’s message happened while on a student mission trip earlier this summer.  So I didn’t have my books or my study aids. Instead, all I had was Genesis 2 & 3, a pen & paper, and some early morning quiet time. I think that process made the message a Read the full article…

Nooks & Crannies  In thinking of the defining moments for families, we typically zero in on the big events:  weddings, funerals, anniversaries, vacations, and holidays. But what if families & relationships are not so much shaped by the spectacularly large but instead by the massively small? What if the real key to growing healthy marriages Read the full article…

One of my friends who is quite open with me about his journey out of addiction and into recovery told me of a phrase the recovery community uses: The Spiritual By-Pass What is that? It’s the desire on the part of many addicts to receive ONE prayer, ONE pill, or ONE deliverance and voila! … Read the full article…

One of my family’s favorite songs is Red Dirt Road by Brooks & Dunn. It is a song that, in the best of country tradition, you see as much as you hear.  More to the point, it speaks to origins, nostalgia, and home.  In our little family, we all have our Red Dirt Roads:  Mine is Read the full article…