• Texas Typical

    Just a few shots from a drive down a typical Texas backroad.   Listen ⇢

    Texas Typical
  • Birds on the Porch

    I’m not much of a birder, but these birds would land just outside our door at our house in Terrell. They made it easy. Of course, we enticed them with birdseed. Photos are copyright © Timothy J. Hammons 2021. Listen ⇢

    Birds on the Porch
  • Longsuffering

    And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” — Exodus… Listen ⇢

  • Organized Religion

    From Christopher Neiswonger: This morning in the sermon we’re going over the dreaded “organized religion”! and why as much as people might shy from the pitfalls of the organized church, the worse thing is ‘disorganized religion’ – where people get hurt, chaos reigns, bad people have the opportunity to do… Listen ⇢

  • “If you believe the Bible, then why do you eat shrimp?”

    If you believe the Bible, then why do you eat shrimp? Gotcha! That is usually the response of most atheists when they ask the above question because most Christians are hard pressed to answer it biblically. I confess, on the spot, I struggle answering it as well. The implied accusation… Listen ⇢

    “If you believe the Bible, then why do you eat shrimp?”
  • A VeggieTales Moment

    I put the reusable bag on the grapefruit to dry, and immediately thought of VeggieTales. For those of you who know that show, can you leave this post without the theme song getting stuck in your head? All photos are copyright © Timothy J. Hammons 2021.  Listen ⇢

    A VeggieTales Moment
  • Past Summer Fun

    These were taken three years ago when we lived near the lake. One of the few good memories I had with the boys was going down to the lake. Below, they were playing in the sand. We found a tree that was right on the shore that provided some excellent… Listen ⇢

    Past Summer Fun
  • A Subtle Judgment

    SUBLTE BUT NO LESS SEVERE. One of the greatest curses we face in the American church today is spiritual blindness. It would be one thing if the blindness existed because we lacked God’s word. But we don’t lack God’s word. We have it in abundance. Yet the spiritual blindness that… Listen ⇢

    A Subtle Judgment