Onword and Upwords by Dennis Brady

Do you think following Jesus is easy and once you decide to live for Him that your life will be all about good times and cotton candy, carnival rides and cupcakes? This is my daughter, Shelby’s vision of Heaven, but… Continue reading

Alright, ever since my last post on honor, I’ve been playing in my head all of your counterarguments and I know that you have some. Some like, “he doesn’t deserve honor”, “she doesn’t honor me”, “if he would honor me… Continue reading

I had the privilege of attending an awesome funeral service this weekend. I’m not sure if “awesome” is the way one should describe a funeral service, but I consider myself a wordsmith and that’s the best word in the entire… Continue reading

I was lying in bed the other morning wishing I had kept my big mouth shut. If you’ve been reading this blog then you know I started the P90X routine a while back. What you might not know is that after… Continue reading

Something has been stirring in my spirit for a week now and I just haven’t been able to put adequate words to it. Then I saw it the other day. That something that was stirring inside of me demonstrated itself… Continue reading

Yesterday was a rough day. My stomach was upset all day and I just came home from work and crashed on the couch for the evening. It must have been a strange sight for Will because several times last night… Continue reading

I shared with you the storm that made landfall on my life and wreaked havoc this week, now I want to tell you about the rainbow, a small miracle that happened to me Friday afternoon. It was like a pat… Continue reading

It’s amusing. I should be laughing if I weren’t so close to tears. It’s definitely ironic. Last week and the first of this week I posted two articles entitled, “Where’s the Faith?” and then I proceed to have arguably the… Continue reading

In my last blog, “Where’s the Faith?” I confessed a crisis of faith and literally worked through it as I was writing the post. I guess that’s why they say writing is cathartic. I laid out for you how my… Continue reading

I thought that I had faith, I really did.  Over 13 years ago when the doctors told us that our first child would die in the womb it came as a real test of my faith. I probably couldn’t spell… Continue reading