I love Walmart. I especially love the clearance sections. Usually there’s a whole aisle of treasures clearance items just outside the garden area in our local Walmart. In additon to that, if you pay attention there are clearance areas on some aisle end-caps and in other random places. …

It’s always “next.” The next appointment. The next game. The next homework assignment. The next meal. The next day. I find myself not only busy but harried. Now there’s a word I can’t use anymore for the top of my head. It is most definitely less hairied than it used…

Mary did. “But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them.”¹ “All these things” were the proclamations by angels, appearances by shepherds, and the delivery of a miracle baby at the first Christmas. Later, when Jesus was a young boy who stayed behind in…

I had glorious ideas last fall. Looking ahead to this fall, I realized that it would mark 30 years since I started playing fantasy football. Last fall, I sat around the living room with my son Sam, and I dreamed big. “We should get all the original guys that were…

Our church has a motto that we say. We stole it from a t-shirt that we saw in Outreach Magazine over 10 years ago. We’ve shortened that over the years to “be the church.” One of our early iterations of a shirt had “Don’t go to church” on the front…

I know. I know. Back in January 2021, I reached the point that I could no longer the atrocious censorship of thought after an incredibly confusing and contentious 2020. From race riots, COVID confusion to political turmoil of a (still) contested election, I had watched with growing unease the “powers…

I’ve been without an iPhone now for over a month. I ditched my iPhone SE (2020) when Apple announced their iPhone 14s and offered no small phone/home button option. I had held out hope that they wouldn’t abandon this “sizable” market. Back in March 2022, Apple re-released the iPhone SE…

Chances are that if you’re reading this, you are desperate for a good word. Life feels gritty. Overwhelming. You want to know if anyone sees you (or perhaps you’ve done something atrocious and the problem is that everyone sees you). You saw “hope” in the title, and you thought, “Yes…

”I’m just so bored of these weird, marginal updates, Tim.” Exactly. It’s why I just dumped my iPhone after 15 years of using them.