DEVOTION
Dive deeper into your faith with Dr. Barry Creamer.
Listen, Learn, Decide
Papa (paw’paw’) is my closest grandparent. From my earliest years even I notice he treats me like the lost dauphin. When I stay with him, I get whatever I want, which is, as it turns out, mostly just to stay with him. Some of Papa’s edges are not just rough but gone....
Empty, Needy People
When he seeks refuge at the cave of Adullam, David’s legitimately earned reputation is already mythic: shepherd-protector of his father’s flocks, hero of Elah’s valley, and ten times over the greater warrior than king Saul. Saul’s own daughter and son are more loyal...
The Troubler of Israel
The sun has a cycle. At solar minimum, there is relatively little activity on our star’s surface; that is, considering there’s an ongoing thermonuclear reaction at its core. But at solar maximum, sunspots, flares, prominences, and coronal mass ejections multiply....
The Only Substance
In 1985, just having moved back to Arlington from college with a wife, a baby, a degree, and a 300 baud modem for my Apple 2C, I am delighted to learn that the Fort Worth Star Telegram offers an online news service, StarText, practically free. Everything about it...
Find Its Own Way
Every drop of my attraction to scripture, astronomy, electricity, and technology has its equivalent drip in my aversion to plumbing. I understand the basic rule: water runs downhill. In my world, that fixed fact is the problem. It seems every bit of water I encounter...
Seeing Boundless Beauty
Because we have completely gutted and transformed the kitchen in our house as we prepare to move in (a dozen years ago), we limit the bathroom remodel to a new shower stall barrier. The worker replacing the dated, frosted, framed structure with a simple piece of clear...