Best of Walker Moore

My wife and I had not had a vacation in several years. We decided to take six days off last week and relax on the beaches of Mexico. We boarded a plane in Tulsa, heading toward our connecting flight in Dallas. Landing at DFW's Terminal A and flying out of Terminal D,...

Last week, a radio host conducted a live interview with me as a part of the publicity for my new book, Rite of Passage Parenting: Four Essential Experiences to Equip Your Kids for Life (Thomas Nelson, 2007). I felt comfortable answering the many questions and thought...

Last week, I wrote about GPS, or Global Positioning Systems, which now appear on everything from cars to bicycles. When you get off track, the GPS unit says loudly, "Recalculating, recalculating." Through the years of writing these articles, I have tried to say,...

Every once in a while, an invention comes along that finds application in nearly every area of life. Velcro is like that-you see it all over. Recently, GPS ("Global Positioning System") units have begun to appear everywhere you turn. Many of the latest-model cars have...

Yesterday, our church honored our senior adults at a special banquet. My Sunday School class volunteered to do the serving. Out of the 200 who attended, I believe at least 199 were Baptist Messenger readers. As I was going from table to table pouring tea, people were...

On June 11, 1973, a nervous young man stood in his home church (Calvary Baptist, Chillicothe, Mo.) to be licensed to the ministry. Little did I know what God had planned. Many years later, I am as excited as the first day I spent serving Him. Any bit of success in my...

When I was attending Bible college (I know some of you longtime readers are surprised that I studied the Bible, but it's true), I had to take a class called "Christian Milieu." It was taught by one of the most feared teachers in our school, Richard Land. Since I am a...

I think one of the huge problems today is the outsourcing of our children. Outsourcing became a way of business in the 1980s. If I can find a company that can make a part cheaper than I can, I will outsource that part, allowing the other company to take care of it for...

As I climbed back into the car after filling up the gas tank and going inside to pay the attendant, my sons started chattering like chipmunks. In the few minutes I had left them there, something enormous had taken place. Now, they were pushing each other out of the...

I consider myself something of a handyman. In 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 have the big Reader's Digest manual on how to...