Walkup's Walkabout

My friend is on the verge of completely rearranging his life through a career move and I could not be happier for him. How do we end up her...

Psalm 25:21 NIV May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you. Recently the wild child Lindsey Lohan was in the news b...

Weddings remind us of priorities...that it really does matter we love, hold hands, blow bubbles in the wind and laugh. Sometimes I miss the...

The other day I got trapped in the internet by a Lindsay Lohan crash and burn account and after I finished reading the gory details I felt l...

While Dan and I were praying together,the rather bizarre thought came to me (I should never admit this) that I do not know of multiple gener...

Last night Noah had a Little League game and he had been slumping pretty badly. He was striking out and seemed to be drooping a bit. Last ...

Yesterday a friend told me that the biggest problem with the United States was overpopulation. California has doubled in size and the Unite...

1 Samuel 13:14 NIV But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him leader of his p...

I have been asked to lead a seminar on sexual abuse at a local church and it frightens me. It has been more than 20 years since I last work...

Hosea 6: 6 NIV For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. Mercy has never been the way we thi...

Tomorrow is Hannah's birthday. When she was born, I thought she was the most beautiful baby I had ever seen. Of course it wasn't l...

Ps 91:5 NIV You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, There is a divine purpose every person possesses that ma...

Yesterday I took my kids to a baseball game and we sat next to a group of guys who were entertained by screaming at the pitcher of the oposi...

Last night Rachel told me I was the best dad! I asked her if she meant that I was the best dad she had and she responded, "No dad, you...

Take the most insignificant detail of your life. A pebble on the ground before you….a glance into the mirror…a forgotten conversation with ...

Yesterday Noah found Mary Jo's missing diamond ring!!! It has been lost for several months and we looked everywhere in our bedroom for i...

I'm not sure when it dawned on me that I am not the center of the universe. The truth is, perhaps it still hasn't really. What seem...

Today I was walking and I stumbled upon a decorative stone that had been kicked out into the street. I bent over and tossed it back in with...

I am not a gambler. I don't buy lotto tickets, I refuse to bet at card games, I don't enter Super Bowl pools, I have never put a ce...

When I first went to Moscow to teach ministerial students I was completely caught off guard by how thoroughly I could fall in love with a mi...