Best of Walker Moore

I know many of you are thinking of, planning or dreaming of a vacation. No matter what, don’t do your vacations the way we did when I was growing up. Our vacations were more like an endurance test than a time of rest and relaxation. Basically, our family went on...

I consider myself somewhat of a handyman. In high school, I took five years of shop—one of the few classes in which I excelled. Growing up around a farm, I learned to do some carpentry and mechanical work. Besides that, I am a proud owner of the Reader's Digest...

It was an amazing sight. People waiting in line for hours. Strangers talking to strangers, sharing their stories. Everyone was waiting for one man. They had set up a stage for this man, and groupies had packed in tightly, hoping they could touch him. As he walked out...

It was March of 1997. I was asked to write an article for the Baptist Messenger on parenting. “Just one,” they said. Then it became “just one more.” Now, 26 years and 1,250 articles later, I am still writing “just one more.” With this article, I have completed 26...

And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?” (Luke 2:49, NASB). I was reared in a good ole country church called Six Mile Baptist. You have seen churches just like it: gravel driveway and...

I didn't know parenting would so dramatically transform my life and value systems. In many ways, this has been a good thing. I’ve learned to love the unlovable, deny myself and pray for those who despitefully use me. For those who are either thinking of having...

I can remember the day—August 4—but not the year. All I know is that my sons were in elementary school. Somehow, the older I get, the more those years get confused. I will say to Jeremiah or Caleb, “Do you remember when you hit a home run in the third grade?” and he...

Two-thirds of the Yada Hoodies are in school, leaving 3-year-old River the Peacemaker the only one left to hang out with Poppy. River is a talker, an excessive talker. Poor kid, he can’t help it; he has a hereditary problem. In Mark 5, when Jesus cast out a legion of...

At the end of my yearly 15 minutes of reflecting, I have concluded that I, Walker Moore, have a blessed life. In fact, when people ask me, “How are you doing?” I usually answer back, “I am suffering from satisfaction!” I am married to a gorgeous, smart and...

If you want to know what is going on with your adult children, just talk to your grandchildren. They’ll tell you everything. I like taking my grandsons out one by one. Sometimes I will take the oldest out for breakfast and, at lunchtime, exchange him for the next one....