When asked what the greatest commandment (i.e. the most important commandment) in the Old Testament law was, Jesus said to love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. All the laws of the Old Testament essentially boil down to these two things: love God and love others. “Teacher, […]
A few years ago, a few friends and I road tripped to Colorado to do a bike ride from Durango to Silverton. The route went through two mountain passes that topped out at almost 11,000 feet. I remember as I was nearing the top of the final climb, I was going slow enough that I […]
If you’ve ever been to the Guadalupe River you probably know that the river is controlled upstream by the Canyon Dam which forms Canyon Lake. The idea for Canyon Dam was first conceived after two major flash floods in the 1930s to control the flow of the river. When there are heavy rains upstream in […]
As a country, we are coming off a presidential election that has consumed much of our attention for a long time. A very. Long. Time. It’s been so long that many of us may have forgotten what it’s like to live without the constant feed of political drama. Like our favorite Netflix binge, we can’t […]
(adapted from Listen & Obey: Hearing God’s Voice) The greatest movies, stories, and books all begin with a dramatic, attention-getting introduction, drawing you in from the very first scene. There is something so finely crafted, so confounding, so beautiful, so emotional, that you must find out what happens in the rest of the story. You […]
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