Heather and I got back from a great vacation yesterday. She’s got a few pics up at her site.
We spent a week on Maui. Heather put the trip together as a surprise Christmas present.  Good surprise. A lot of people worked with her to make it happen while keeping it a secret from me.  […]

While my blog was down last week, I was in the Pacific Northwest, staying in a cabin in the woods near Bellingham, Washington, where we once lived for six years. No phone, email, or TV. Just a nice cabin, a wood-burning stove, a pile of books, and silence. It was great.
Autumn in the Northwest is […]

I got up this morning at 5:30 to catch a flight out to Lubbock. I spent the day there visiting my grandparents–ages 95 and 86. They’re both ailing and I wanted to see them before the summer ended. I’m about to catch my flight back to Tulsa.
I grew up in West Texas, out in the […]

I’m back in Tulsa. 
We didn’t get any more rain in Austin so the flooding went down pretty quickly.
Tulsa is very soggy right now.  Major flooding going on in some areas.
My summer travels are pretty much over.
I’ve been gone for most of the month of June.  It was a great break.  One I really […]

Yesterday we fished for perch (Caleb caught the biggest perch I’ve ever seen), swung from a tree into one of the deep holes in the creek that crosses my parent’s ranch, and drove into Austin for a great meal at Z’Tejas. (Good grief it a was a fine meal. Z’Tejas just catapulted onto my list […]

While Heather is out of the country on a mission trip, the boys and I are spending some time in Texas with my parents. Last night it started raining. And it rained and rained and rained.
Long story short: we’re right in the middle of all of the flooding just north of Austin that you’re […]

We had a great vacation. We spent a few days in Gulf Shores, Alabama and then a few in Panama City Beach, Florida. You can check out pics and vacation stories here, here, and here.  Yes, my wife now has a blog.  Worlds are colliding!
While away I preached at the Palo Alto Church in Panama […]

I’m in Nashville having a good time at the Zoe Conference. Right now Lauren Winner is talking about tithing and doing a good job of it.
I’ve been doing sessions on how we need to start emphasizing “how” we believe alongside “what” we believe. I’ve blogged on this before so there is […]

I got back into town late last night. I spent Monday in Abilene at the ACU lectures. Abilene in September is much better than Abilene in February. Abilene’s biggest problem is that it’s not Malibu in any month of the year.
Then I made a quick trip down to Austin to see my […]

I haven’t been around the computer much in the past few days.
Here’s a picture proving that I caught some fish on my fishing trip in British Columbia in July.