I spent this past weekend with my immediate and extended family in Austin, Texas, where we celebrated the 100th birthday of my mom, Betty X. Davis. An eclectic crew of over 100 family members, writers, tennis players, politicians, and neighborhood friends gathered in an Austin-area restaurant to give homage to a woman who still has Read the full article…

I spent the past weekend in Austin, Texas, celebrating my mother’s 100th birthday.  (More on that particular extravaganza on tomorrow’s Top Five Tuesday.) So one of my favorite people on earth, Devin Tharp, our Pastor of Student and Family Ministries, delivered the message.  Devin’s sermon came as the fifth week of the Almost Human series, Read the full article…

Here’s a question I recently thought of regarding conversion, Calvinism, and predestination. It’s based partly on my early faith experience as a 17-year-old and then partly out of an Ephesians-based bible study. Here it is: Do Calvinist Christians (great people, great in number) present the Gospel to the unconverted, treating that person as if he Read the full article…

So this happened yesterday: What was all that about?  Well, Laurel University is an intimate, picturesque, undergraduate institution with a distinctively Wesleyan approach to its theology and practice. After all, its name until 2011 was John Wesley College and many of its faculty and staff have degrees from Asbury Seminary and Wesley Biblical Seminary. In Read the full article…

I have noted with many of you before the difference between people who “think to talk” and those who “talk to think.” Think to talkers ponder, meditate, and plan what they are going to say before they ever say it. Talk to thinkers process their thoughts verbally.  They are the kind of folks who will Read the full article…