Walkup's Walkabout

A friend of mine told me recently that he was talking with a researcher who was studying the effect of chronic back pain on the sufferers an...

I was once asked by one of my children what would happen if everyone in the world jumped at the same time? Would it crack the earth apart? ...

We have come to the end of the line or maybe the line has come to the end of us. Is the stuff of our lives that intoxicating that we think ...

I have started each day writing down a line of blessings. It has just been a three day discipline but already it feels like stretching out ...

It seems like faith is mostly grim-faced determination. You gut out faith. Faith means you're not happy about something, you are tired o...

Last night I had a Christian song playing as Benjamin and I got ready to read a book together in bed when I switched the ipod to a smooth Mi...

For the second time in seven months my laptop has been stolen out of my car. The thief stole the quarters out of my ashtray, the cokes and ...

Today I was reading the history of the Baptist church where I was raised, baptized and ordained to preach. No pastor in its fifty years of ...

I am more often than not a glass is half empty guy who refuses to quit. Just the other day I read once again Einstein’s famous determinatio...

Twenty five years married and it is just a moment in a flash...Looking at the wedding book and pondering how antiquated even my glasses were...

I am not sure why it is so tough to give up some things: cokes, nail biting, fear of failure, poisonous comments, critical self-righteous th...

As the clouds roll in today and the heat wave dissipates, I am struck by how quickly our circumstances can shift. One day we are hot and ...

The other night I was sleeping soundly and in the middle of a stirring dream when I was suddenly startled by a voice at three in the morning...

My brother is a hero. His friend friend and partner Ian Leong is a hero. And so is Paul Starzyk, who lost his life a hero. All three are pol...

There were four indications that the Christians in Corinth were living anti-God lives. They were suffering from bouts of boiling anger. Th...

1 Corinthians 3: 1-7 GJW And I brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual ones but as in the flesh, as to babies in Christ. 2 Mil...

I have in the past few weeks become accutely aware of my need for the Holy Spirit to overwhelm me and dominate my interests and desires. It...

As some of you know we lost our kitten Saturday. I have called this little creature Beelzebub for good reason. She greets me many mornings b...