It wasn’t until I gave up everything in my life that I gained everything in my life. That’s a pretty tough statement to make. In life, as a believer, as a follower of Jesus, or even as an unbeliever…….we often are trying to live life on our terms and wonder why the empty plac
I have many achievements in life. I was in the Army and led a platoon of soldiers through a war (11th Chemical Company, 5th Platoon, Gulf War), I serve the hungry and addicted (Grace and Grits), I have a band (The Vicar Bry Band), I am a pastor and am blessed to serve a wonderful church (a group of
Yesterday my daughter, Shannon, stopped by and dropped off my grandson Isaac. He’s just 16 months old. She put him down on the floor on the other side of the room as I sat in my big red recliner reading the news. He immediately got up with a huge smile and ran over to me with this look in his eyes t
A wife asks her husband, “Honey, if I died, would you remarry?” He replies, “After a considerable period of grieving, I guess I would. We all need companionship.” “Well”, she asked, “If I died and you remarried, would she live in this house?” “We
The world tells us to “try people on for size”. The world tells us to marry for convenience under the shadow of love. But God tells us that when we marry, we should be ready to wade through the muck of life together as a team. God, indeed Jesus, tells us that if we are committed to each
I am a “used husband” as my wife occasionally jokes. I am okay with her joke, I have been indeed divorced. I was married on a whim, we weren’t in love and I was a cultural Christian, meaning that I was not following Jesus but would say I was a Christian if asked because my parents