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Halloween 2006
My goals for Halloween 2006. I will not eat my son’s candy. I will not eat my oldest daughter’s candy. I will not eat my youngest daughter’s candy. Not that they care. They usually offer it to me. The stupidity is when I take it. My grandfather had late life onset diabetes, so does my…
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It ain’t about the golf
Ten or so friends, brothers, cousins meet once each Fall to play golf, but it ain’t about the golf. It’s about brotherhood and being together in the struggle to stay married and loving our wives and children and keep laughing through middle age. We’re mostly in our 40s now and greying and balding and hip-replaced…
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Súbete Chevy
If you’ve been watching the World Series (Go Cards), and if you’re like me, you were standing at the kitchen island eating pretzels dipped in sour cream and sipping a Diet Dr Pepper at commercial break and your head popped up and you stopped crunching because on your FOX English broadcast of the classic-not-since-1968-dual-between-Cards-and-Tigers-game came…
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United 4 Uganda
Garnett Church of Christ is hosting November 3 – 4 a gathering called “United 4 Uganda.” The purpose of the gathering is to put supporters of Ugandan missions together in one room to discuss how we can do a better job of supporting missionaries and projects in Uganda. Those attending have interests ranging from AIDS…
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Christians unite to call U.S. to help Sudan
Several evangelical Christian leaders have discovered a profound unity on the crisis in Darfur. Believing this is a time and an issue that transcends other political differences, a number of us began talking about how we could respond to this enormous moral challenge. Those conversations have led us, in partnership with the Save Darfur Coalition,…
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A sermon about Halloween?
I know, I know, I can’t believe it either, but yes I preached a sermon about Halloween. It’s 18 minutes long and you can hear it on your iTunes. Type “Garnett podcast” in your iTunes search. Subscribe to Garnett’s Podcast and you’ll also get sermons from one of my favorite preachers and friend, Wade Hodges.
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Putting the hallow back in Halloween
Halloween is the second largest commercial holiday in America. We spend $6.9 billion. What is it about Halloween that draws us in? We’re called to be light, even on culture’s darkest days. How do we live October 31? How do we prepare for it? How do we respond to our culture’s celebration, whether we boycott…
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Haiku and prayer
Remember haiku from grammar school? You thought it was corny, right? OK, you were partly right. But consider this: haiku is a way of sabbath ceasing for any moment of the week. It’s a way to jot down, reflect upon, and capture a moment in time. Turned toward God, it becomes another form of prayer.…
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The Porpoise Diving Life
I told you a few weeks ago about the incredible Gary Smith article in Sports Illustrated about Pat Tillman, the former NFL linebacker turned soldier who died in Afghanistan. In the recent issue of SI someone wrote a letter in reference to Tillman’s “purpose-driven” life. For all those who critique the “purpose-driven” language, particularly of…
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Praying the Bible with your family
I really like the series of books David and Heather Kopp have produced, for their focus on prayer practiced in families and home life. One of their books, Praying the Bible with your family is a great resource for family devotional times. Here is an example of the format: Quotes Job 38 Brief meditation on…