Eventually, this broke a water pipe feeding one of the toilets and I heard the water running.

You read my blog to consider along with me because you desire to make progress, to change, and to transform.

What does Christianity truly teach and believe about injustice, inequality, race, difference, and other social questions?

I awoke this morning with you and this poem converging at the top of my list of priorities for the day.

“Preston, you took a leap of faith; I took a leap of unfaith.”

Who won? Who lost? Here are the four biggest losers and four biggest winners. Least to biggest in each category, unfiltered, and to the best of my ability without bias.

God created the pinnacle of creation perfectly, but He did not give them the ability to make clothes for themselves. Why should He?

It is a famous verse of scripture that is mind-boggling in scope and implication.

Infatuation is like betting on the lottery. Love is like having money in the bank.

A true enemy is someone who troubles you, who you feel threatened by—someone who can cause you harm or do you in if you let your guard down or get caught by surprise. 

I entered higher education with the ability to think, but I didn’t have the skill of thinking critically. 

The heavens had portended what was to unfold with lightening more spectacular than the commemorative fireworks and thunder that drowned out the explosions. It was a gamble, but all of Tupelo and the surrounding area wagered that the weather would hold.

I'm here to report that I personally have fallen off the edge of the world. 

The problem is that the knowledge I know has not yet intersected with the project at hand.

As I stood and looked over the southwest side of Fort Worth, I asked Him what He considered to be the key to experiencing His promise that we might have life and have it more abundantly.

I figured He would be half tuned to me and half tuned to the great need around Him.  But He had all the time in the world. I didn’t understand, but neither did I think about it for long. 

That was silly of me. Concerned? Yes. But burdened? He wasn’t burdened at all by the weight He carried. Quite the contrary. It was as though the burdens cast upon Him were without significant weight. He conveyed the confidence that only God could have. 

Jesus’ one command was, “You shall love the Lord your God. This is the great and foremost commandment.”

Jesus issued several imperatives. But when the religious leaders asked him to pinpoint a command, he isolated the most important truth in the Bible: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart.