“How I want to see the weight of glory break my thick scales, the weight of glory smash the chains of desperate materialism, split the numbing shell of deadening entertainment, bust up the ice of catatonic hearts. I want to see God, who pulls on the coat of my skin and doesn’t leave me alone…

Thankful today for long drives down dirt roads through open fields with the sun shining down and the wind rushing by and Isaac Meyer’s beautiful acoustic guitar playing… I have been in such an acoustic mood lately — guitar, piano. Maybe it’s the weather… the changing season. Anyway, the Lord is good in the midst…

“Most of us don’t use our mouth at all for what God gave it to us for. There is great power and authority in words. The kind of power depends on the kind of words. We can curse our future by speaking evil of it or we can bless it by speaking well of it.”…

Many years ago, one of my old teachers, Brian Griffith, challenged me to a reading contest, where we each would read throughout the year and keep track of our books (fiction and non fiction) and then the loser wold buy the winner the book of his choice. We kept up that contest for quite a…