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Of all the sounds in a church what is more beautiful than the sound of a baby crying? The sound of a baby crying means that there are parents brave enough to bring their children to church. It is the sound that parents weighed the inconvenience of packing up their child to giving their child the chance to be with God’s people and being with God’s people won. It is the sound of a congregation who is willing to hear beyond a cry and hear the sound of opportunity and blessing. The sound of a baby crying is…         The sound of hope         The sound of faith         The sound of love From the old and wrinkled hands of Sarah, the sound of a baby crying meant that God had kept his promise. From the basket floating among the bulrushes of the Nile, the sound of a baby crying meant that God had sent a deliverer. From the humble manger of Bethlehem, the sound...

I have a cat, actually two of them.   I have a dog.   They are remarkably different.   Gerald Robison, in his book Cat and Dog Theology , relates these differences to our relationship with God.   One of those differences is how we respond to the care and attention of God. When I come home from work and swing open the door my cats rarely acknowledge my presence.   In fact they often seem a bit annoyed that I have interrupted their busy schedule.   Usually reclining on the couch, they may give me one of those annoyed looks and then go back to whatever deep thoughts have occupied them for the last six hours.   When I go to the back door and call my dog he comes bounding up the steps with tongue and tail wagging simply delighted that I have safely returned home from whatever brave adventure I have been on.   Seeing me makes his day! When I feed the cats they amble over to the bowl, sniff their food, and give me a look as is to say, "Is tha...

Many from our community are upset by the recent ruling in Pottsboro prohibiting public prayer before football games.   I'm a little hacked as well.   I’d like everyone to pray Christian prayers wherever "two or three are gathered."   But another part of me thinks there might be something not so bad about this.   Here's why: (1) No Christian prayer before football games means no other kind of prayer as well.   I suppose if we allow a Christian minister to pray we would have to allow an Imam to lead a Muslim prayer or a monk to lead a Buddhist prayer, or an atheist to lead an atheist prayer or whatever they call their meditative time.     I would really not like any of that at all. (2) To tell you the truth, I rarely feel that throwing in a prayer before a football game while people are juggling their popcorn and arranging those big foam fingers is hardly a religious experience.   I'm suspicious that these types of public prayers resembl...