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Who is Tasting Your Stew?
Dr. Mark Bailey, former president of Dallas Theological Seminary, spoke of the need for accountability in the Christian life. "It's like making a stew…" he began to illustrate. “Each of us has our own recipe. We add a little here. We add a little there. We season the stew to our liking. We get ahead of ourselves and think our stew is good. The problem is we haven’t exposed it to the opinions of others.” He closed his illustration by claiming you have to have someone close enough to smell and taste your stew—even more so, someone who won’t lie about it! Life, like cooking, has never been an exact…
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And The Greatest of These Is Love
And the Greatest of these is Love Just a few short weeks ago, I had the incredible privilege to see my first-born marry the love of his life. I had been asked to be present a year prior for the proposal. My son had orchestrated a scavenger hunt, sending his soon to be fiancé, on a trip to each special place in their dating life – from the place they first met, to the place they had their first date. Each place had a family member waiting for her with a white rose and a clue for the next meeting place. At the end of the hunt was my…
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The (Not So) Secret to a Happy Marriage
Last week while waiting in the hall for someone from Dallas’s Criminal Court 5 to call me in, I had a long conversation with a fellow juror—a younger single woman who self-identified as a Messianic Jew (Christian). When she learned I had been married thirty-two years, she was intrigued. “From the way you describe it,” she said, “you seem to really enjoy being around your husband.” She sounded surprised. “So what’s your secret? What made it work for you?” My first answer was genuine, but sadly she didn’t believe me. See, I told her that having Jesus Christ at the center of our relationship was the strongest glue. And I…
