Twenty years ago, on January 10th, 2003, a young man named Terry Drier was stranded in the ocean for twenty hours after his boat capsized. He gave a valiant effort at survival, although he later confessed that he felt certain that he was going to die. After that long while, a helicopter located him, and […]

There is a story about the Lone Ranger. He and his sidekick, Tonto, are crossing the Great Plains. All of a sudden, a group of Indians attack from the south. Tonto asks, “What do we do, Kimosabi?” The Lone Ranger says, “Well, we should go to the north.” So, they go north to run from […]

There’s a preacher story about a man who went to dinner with a friend of his. He asked his friend to take him to a restaurant with the best possible meat selection. The friend took him to a restaurant that specialized in serving tongue. They served grilled tongue, fried tongue, baked tongue, tongue in salads, […]

Some of the most graphic language in the Old Testament is found in the writings of the prophet Isaiah. In Isaiah 64:6, he uses an explicit illustration to demonstrate our desperate need for God’s grace. He wrote, “We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag […]

Discipleship is an ongoing process; it doesn’t just happen overnight. One of my favorite “preacher stories” is the one about the farmer who went to the city for the first time. He saw a mall and had never seen a mall before. He was with his son and his wife. He told them, “I’ve got […]

You’ve probably heard the story about the atheist professor who was walking through the woods one day, admiring the accident of evolution. He looked at the trees and the flowers; he observed the rivers and the animals, and he marveled at the magnificence of evolution. All of a sudden, he heard a rustling in the […]

Have you ever seen a person with a big dog on a leash that’s dragging the person around? Or maybe the person is having to drag the dog? That is the way a lot of us are living our Christian lives; we’re trying to follow Jesus while living on a law leash. For many of […]

One of the great experiments in regards to nationality is the American Experiment. The American Experiment is unique because of its intentionality to bring people from all walks of life, from every nation, under the banner of a single flag and purposefully invite people to our country from all kinds of other nations who would […]

Maybe you’ve seen the old Western movie with Gary Cooper called The Hanging Tree. In the movie, Gary Cooper plays a doctor who saves people’s lives. In one scene, a young man gets shot; he’s dying. Gary Cooper rushes in to perform surgery and he pulls out the bullet and is able to save the […]

A few years ago, a hospice nurse named from Bonnie Ware shared the five most common regrets expressed to her by her patients at the end of their lives. Here they are: “I wish that I would have had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life that others expected of […]