photos and stories from a men’s retreat at Smith Mountain Lake
the beautiful privilege of living in the light comes also with the responsibility to follow Jesus in such a way that others are invited into the story.
Category: The Story
so what is your superpower – and your superhero name?
My superpower is my relationship with God. My superhero name is “Disciple.
grandkids, back to school, and Virginia history…
I am so glad that our grandchildren are interested in their world, and learning to understand what we can learn from history.
A photo-review of August – a beautiful and eventful month!
Life is a series of recordable moments – all beautiful in their own way…
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse and North Carolina’s role in securing freedom
there’s this constant tension between what I find fascinating and what I believe is right. I love history, and the stories surrounding great battles are compelling, but I can’t begin to understand violence and the brutal events that play out when nations make war.
66 years of (Amazing) Grace and (King) David
“Grace” is more than my mother’s name, and “David” really is “a man after God’s own heart.”
Cultivating a Grateful Heart
Our own rightness is an extension of God’s goodness. We do not act independent of God, but we act – when we are at our best – in partnership.
Be Excellent to One Another #GoodFriday
The goodness that Good Friday makes possible is foundational to practical Christianity. If we are not excellent to each other, then Christ is not alive in us.
Music, spiritual truth, and forgiveness
Why do so many relationships fall apart? Because we fail to practice the essential principles of Christ’s teachings.
love so real it makes you cry…
The love spills over. That’s really what made me tear up so often over the weekend. Not so much the pain as the love. Love that is rich, and authentic, and love that points to such overwhelming truth. It wouldn’t hurt so much if it wasn’t so real.
