David Burchett

Welcome to the experiment known as the iPod devotional series. Here is how it works. On the old iPod is a “shuffle songs” feature. You hit the...

Thanks to my amazing ability to procrastinate (it may be my superpower) I get to recycle an article from last year. When last year's Sports...

I miss my Dad. Today I listened to a couple of his favorite songs. It was the musical version of comfort food. I felt comfort wash over my soul....

Today is National Signing Day for college football. All of the highly touted prospects sign their paper work to their chosen school. Hundreds of...

In the funny movie Groundhog Day a reporter is stuck in an endless "time loop" that dooms him to repeat the same day over and over. It seems that...

Regular readers of the humble ramblings know how much I love dog friend Hannah. She is such a calming influence that I often call her “furry...

A story in the local paper made me angry, then sad, and finally blessed. That is a lot of plot twists for one news article. If you live outside of...

Yesterday I was driving home lost in thought. I have been teaching about grace and I was thinking about the tension between grace and law. Flashing...

Sometimes I wonder how we will be grouped in heaven. Will there be an eHarmony kind of questionnaire to assign us to the right small group? ...

Today I accomplished one of my least favorite tasks of the year. Taking down the Christmas decorations always makes me a bit melancholy. One of our...

I am taking a respite from the humble ramblings for the rest of this year. Some accused me of already mailing it in by recycling some previous...

The past two posts have offered some gift ideas to give Jesus on His upcoming birthday. It is an odd concept indeed that we generally give...

This series was well received last year. Some would call this a repeat but I prefer to think of it as environmentally friendly blog recycling with...

So what can you give the Lord of the Universe? If you think your mother-in-law is tough to buy for what do buy for the Savior who has everything? I...

This year’s big Christmas controversy has been the suddenly in your face anti-religion tactics launched by some atheists. I wrote about what I...

On December 24, 1914, in the middle of a freezing battlefield in France, a miracle happened.

After listening to verse three of Away In A Manger today an important series of difficult and probing inquiries popped into my head. What noise,...