Bart Barber

We have bluebonnets! It's that time of year.

I could take ten pages to try to explain, but after all of these years of following Jesus, somehow it seems more natural than it ever has and also more supernatural than ever.

Give her the gift that tells her, “You’re the one.”

It’s foggier here in the Ozarks than that sentence on page 114 that I wrote at 2:30 AM about two years into writing my dissertation.

What a glorious blessing when something you so greatly miss doing with your parents is one thing that you 100% know you will do together again in Heaven!

But I'm most thankful not for the many times that they led us to sing together in church, but for the times when we just stood around the piano in our home and sang praises to Jesus.

I'm thankful for times they made our family sing together. I'm not the enthusiast for Southern Gospel that they were, but it beats everything that has succeeded it in at least this way—so many families sang together in those quartets and quintets!

I'm thankful for a Dad who, in addition to being a man's man—a hunter and fisherman, an entrepreneur, a professional expert in politics, a guy who built with his own hands an addition onto our house—loved to sing bass to gospel hymns and Gaither standards.

I'm thankful for a Mom who loved Jesus so much. My first exposure to the blessed hymns of the faith was her voice singing the alto line, making its way through amniotic fluid to my ears.

Listening to Steven Curtis Chapman's album "Deeper Roots," I'm thinking about how much I miss singing with Mom, Dad, and my sisters.

Unfollowing you if this article defends the idea that a boy was playing a drum there.

a man in a yellow jacket is waving his hand ALT: a man in a yellow jacket is waving his hand

…including Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

It is an important measure of spiritual maturity and true faith to receive graciously from God that which you did not want.

Isn’t she cute? #SantaGertrudis #Cattle

That look on your Mom’s face from the choir loft when you’re acting up in church.

I created an account, searched for "cattle," found almost nothing, and realized that I have work to do here.