If you are anything like most wine lovers, you often head toward a label that you are familiar with, a label that looks interesting, a name that might intrigue you or one that your brother-in-law recommended. more

Spend the extra $25 on the already-exorbitant airplane ticket to sit in the exit row or the bulkhead on overseas flights. more

Have you ever heard that phrase, “That you may put away the evil from among you?” more

We have all seen those bottles of Prosecco that are packaged with mushroom shaped cork and a wire frame holding it to the bottle as though they were champagne. more

I thought empty nesting would be more peaceful. But as soon as the kids moved to college last month, a war broke out on the home front. more

This year has been a good year in the garden and hopefully you have found it the same in your part of Missouri. more

I recently came across several wines that carried the very unusual brand name of Unshackled which, just by this name alone piqued my interest. more

It has never happened before and will probably never happen again. But it happened once, and it was thrilling. more

In his letter to the church in Corinth, Paul encourages Christians to live life with faith, hope and love. This morning, I am considering how I as a pastor do those things.  more

Have you ever been grateful you’re not good at something? This year I decided it’s probably best that I’m terrible at selfies. Truly, absolutely awful. more

It was a simple request to producers and/or wholesalers; do you have a cabernet sauvignon that you would like me to review? more

My ten-year-old collided foot-first with the problem of evil last week. more

Change is in the air. more

Dear Empty Nesting Professionals, more

As I drive through town, the season that we are in becomes abundantly obvious. more

In 1930, Baron Philip de Rothschild created a wine variety that he believed would bring attention to the wines of Bordeaux and also could be sold at popular prices. more

We leave on our European adventure in about a month – but I cannot really believe it’s going to happen. I remember the last time we were ready to take a trip that we had dreamed of for years – to Ireland. more

My family and I moved to Warrensburg this past June and our second night in town, day two of moving, I decided to order pizza at Pizza Hut for all the hungry and tired movers. more

Did you know that they make wine in Georgia? more

My summer semester is over – no telling students for a while not to begin sentences with the expletive pattern and to develop a thesis statement that will make their argument easy to follow. I have a few weeks before I start a fall class and begin those admonitions all over again. Somehow, I think God knows when I need a break, because a few of my complex law cases wound down about the same time I was grading finals. This means I have time to do . . . what? more