by Gary Taylor | Oct 13, 2017 | Blog, Busy, Journaling, Joy, Pause
I was at a water park with my family when our daughter – about 5-years old at the time – snuck off without us noticing. Upon realizing that we were separated, I scanned a huge crowd of hundreds in my immediate area, feeling a wave of panic and of deep concern. How...
by Gary Taylor | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog, Busy, Community, Pause, Vulnerable
After my dad passed away in 2012, I inherited several hundred books from his library. Most of them are commentaries on the 66 books of the Bible. To prepare for teaching from Ephesians this weekend, I pulled a number of those books off the shelf. His name – in his own...
by Gary Taylor | Dec 18, 2016 | Blog, Busy, Cross, grace, Overwhelmed, Pause
There wasn’t a game I played more often as a kid than a good, old-fashioned game of tag. I never wanted to be “It.” I just wanted to run from whoever was. It was exhilarating and exhausting to have someone on your heels in hot pursuit, so long as you didn’t get...