Sterling Griggs

I was shopping for some dodge balls at the local Sports Authority store tonight when I ran into what I believe was an incredible deal. First let me say that I was going to shop at the new Dick's Sporting Goods store which has the most unbelievable selection of everything sports you can imagine, but I am a loyal guy and I have always checked out Sports Authority first, so tonight would be no different. There is line of New Balance running shoes, the 900 series, that I have been checking out for a long time but the price tag is way too high. I have tried to justify just buying a pair but as I age I find that I am actually more responsible that I realize so I have fought off the voice in my head that wants me to be impulsive. That is, until tonight. As I made my way to the back of the story I purposefully swung by the shoe aisles so that I could gaze at the objects of my affection. I noticed that a salesperson was talking to a customer about the New Balance 992, the luxury sedan o...

Me and Kellie and the girls are at Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina this week with some good friends of ours. This is Deacon's first real trip to the beach and so far he's been having a blast. Chandler and Reynolds are regular pros. As for me and Kellie, we are content to just sit in the sand, walk on the beach, feel the sea breeze all around us, and watch our kids. Life doesn't get much better than this.

I've been reading Erwin McManus' new book Soul Cravings and I ran across an entry that really moved me. The entry is #9 in the "Destiny" section and it's called "Oxygen for the Soul." McManus is writing about hope, and that without it there is no real reason to live. Without hope all we have is despair. When we have hope it's not because we are certain of the future but rather because we see the future as filled with promise. His next paragraph is what I like best: "Like the promise of a future, hope comes only from something we do not yet have, something we have not yet attained. In other words, how much you have in the world has no bearing on how much hope you have. In actuality, everything you have no longer qualifies as a conduit of hope. Once you have it, it's out of the arena of hope." Jesus is my hope, not because I don't yet know Him - I do - but He's my hope because of the future that I will have with Him. Beca...

The following conversation was printed in the February 2007 edition of the National Geographic Magazine . I know it's really long but it's really a very good read. The often strained relationship between science and religion has become particularly combative lately. In one corner we have scientists such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker who view religion as a relic of our superstitious, prescientific past that humanity should abandon. In the other corner are religious believers who charge that science is morally nihilistic and inadequate for understanding the wonders of existence. Into this breach steps Francis Collins, who offers himself as proof that science and religion can be reconciled. As leader of the Human Genome Project, Collins is among the world's most important scientists, the head of a multibillion-dollar research program aimed at understanding human nature and healing our innate disorders. And yet in his best-selling book, The Language of God , he recounts...