Our Favorite Christmas Movie Tradition (& Giveaway)

Our Favorite Christmas Movie Tradition (& Giveaway)

[Thanks, everyone, for entering—Keri is the winner!] Family movies are one of the great joys of the Christmas season: It’s a Wonderful Life, Elf, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Polar Express, A Christmas Story, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie...
Sunday Scripture today at (in)courage

Sunday Scripture today at (in)courage

“Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship the Lord. But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today: Which will you...
Dripping from the Cross: A Sunday Hymn

Dripping from the Cross: A Sunday Hymn

I haven’t posted a Sunday Hymn in quite some time, but after spending the last few days at our annual singing school in Jasper, AL, they’re on my mind. My kids love “Dripping from the Cross,” a hymn by L.B. Leister (1885-1968), and our...
The Best Policy

The Best Policy

My youngest daughter is as outgoing and precocious as you’d imagine the baby in a family with eight children would be. We welcomed her into our world on a hot June day, in what would later become the week of our annual trip to singing camp in Alabama. In 2011,...
To My First Son on the Eve of His Wedding

To My First Son on the Eve of His Wedding

You entered our world in the wee hours of a Monday morning in June, almost initiating your daddy into the first-time parent club on Father’s Day. He carried a new copy of Fatherhood into the delivery room, not realizing you’d arrive before he had a chance...
The Gift of Reasonable Expectations

The Gift of Reasonable Expectations

My sister asked me to photograph her wedding just two months after I got my first DSLR. Boy, was I nervous. I carried Scott Kelby’s digital photography books in my camera bag and read them every spare moment; drove to Nashville to attend a NAPP (now KelbyOne)...

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