Margaret is out church historian.  She knows everything.  She even knows where to find Jimmy Hoffa’s body; she just won’t tell anyone. This past week, Margaret sent the following message: “Tom, attached is a devotional from May 16, 2014. It is hilarious. I know you sometimes need to repeat devotionals. You may not have ones from 2014, so maybe … Continue reading Daily Devotional July 31, 2023 →

Yesterday, Shannon called with some bad news.  Our garage floor was covered in water.  Both of us immediately knew the problem.  The air conditioner’s condensate line was clogged. Realizing I was about to climb into our blisteringly hot attic, late in the afternoon, when the temperature was one hundred degrees outside, I decided to throw myself a pity … Continue reading Daily Devotional July 27, 2023 →

Rerun of Daily Devotional July 30, 2018  Every Sunday afternoon for the last few months, an anonymous member of the church has been sending me critiques of my sermons, whether I wanted them or not.  I always enjoyed reading them because whomever was sending them is very imaginative and has a great sense of humor.   The critiques … Continue reading Daily Devotional July 26, 2023 →

For Father’s Day, my grandchildren gave me the greatest shirt in the history of shirts.  It’s a Hawaiian shirt covered in Hereford cows.  Yesterday, I wore it to work.As I was answering Marjorie’s question about why I was wearing a shirt covered in cows, Carol said, “I just think it’s a lot of bull.”  Yep, there’s always one.The … Continue reading Daily Devotional for July 25, 2023 →

Last week, Shannon sent me to the grocery store.  Let me rephrase that since I am the head of the house. Last week, Shannon asked if I would be so kind as to go to the grocery store.  I graciously agreed because she only needed a few items, and I would not have to go into an … Continue reading Daily Devotional July 24, 2023 →

Rerun of Daily Devotional July 18, 2017 Years ago, Shannon and I were eating breakfast at a local Mexican restaurant when I noticed a woman across the room kept staring at me.  After about ten minutes of this very uncomfortable situation, I realized she had recently visited to our church.  I waved and said, “How are you … Continue reading Daily Devotional July 20, 2023 →

Yesterday, Shannon conducted Jesus Camp at our church for all the children.  It was a real big production.Usually, at the start of each day, I say a prayer with the children but yesterday was different.As the children started coming in, Shannon said, “I need you to go to Hobby Lobby and get magnetic wands and donut … Continue reading Daily Devotional for July 19, 2023 →

Shannon is our church’s Children’s Program Director which means I get to live children’s programming seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.  She lives for this.Today she has the children in Jesus Camp, where they will study science, then tomorrow, she will take them in our church’s very own Escape Room.That’s right.  We are going to … Continue reading Daily Devotional for July 18, 2023 →

Rerun of Daily Devotional July 17, 2017 Carol sent me the following email.  There’s a whole lot of truth in it. It was a sad and disappointing day When I discovered my Universal Remote Control Did not,  In fact,  Control the Universe (Not even remotely) Many of us want to believe that we are in control … Continue reading Daily Devotional July 17, 2023 →

Summer in our church is always crazy because programming shifts into overdrive.  So, we decided to add one more event.  On August 3-5, our church will host a never-before held event called The Gathering for the Mid-Tex Conference of the Global Methodist Church. On August 3-4, Rev. Dr. Jason Vickers will speak on The Heart of Wesleyan Theology.  In addition, … Continue reading Daily Devotional July 13, 2023 →