Don’t get it wrong, I am a Republican and have been an active member of my party since I was first able to vote. Some may try to call me a RINO — whatever that is supposed to mean — but I will put my Republican credentials up against anyone, and my record will speak for itself.
I had coffee with another pastor not too long ago and I have other friends in the ministry and the stories they tell are crazy. It’s like, do we all have the same playbook (the Bible). Do we all know what Christianity is about?
The rains that fell across much of Texas last week were right on cue. It always seems to rain just before the opener of dove season.
One of the first songs concerning God many of us learned was, Jesus Loves Me. After that we probably learned to interlock our fingers and make a steeple with our index fingers, doors with our thumbs and then repeat, “Here is the church, here is the steeple, open the doors and see all the people.” No doubt it was well meaning people that taught us these things but it set us up for failure.
It was heartbreaking to see Representative Brian Harrison’s “no” vote on Senate Bill 1. Families stood right in front of him, carrying a grief no parent should ever have to carry.
Chances are very good that if you hunt deer, turkey or wild hogs in Texas you have at least one corn feeder on the property you hunt. You also have some sort of stand or blind that you hunt from.
Texas has been home to many imaginative scientists, artists, and writers. Because of their dreams and determination, they changed how people saw the world.
Bessie Coleman had said as a child that she wanted to make something of herself.
People live such fragmented lives.
“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” were the words of Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell when an explosion crippled the spacecraft and threatened the lives of the crew.