Ash Wednesday

"Amazing Grace" jazz style

The last Sunday before Fat Tuesday at St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church in Cullman, Alabama.

Grilled cheeses for Jesus

My friends Beau and Ashley pass out grilled cheese sandwiches and the love of Christ at concerts in their Grilled Cheese Wagon. If you're at a Widespread Panic show, look 'em up. I shot this video today outside our church in Homewood, Alabama.

Elect Jesus

Shot between Gardendale and Fultondale, Alabama, during an election year.

I have a dream

From an event called "March for Jesus" in Birmingham, Alabama, in the mid-1990s. This family is walking past a business called Hubcap Heaven, hence the wheel covers in the window.

How the Apostle Paul was known to his friends

Actually two movies, one you might recall a decent Robert Duvall film, the other a silly parrot movie.

McCain Palin flip for Jesus

I shot this today in Gardendale, Alabama in a doctor's office parking lot.

There is a friend in Jesus

I found this sign along a road in Good Hope, Alabama

Jesus from the air

GoogleEarthHacks has found Jesus in what looks like a field north of Huntsville, Alabama, near the Tennessee line.

Go to Church or the Devil Will Get You

This sign was visible on the northbound lane of Interstate 65 north of Montgomery, Alabama, for several years. That's a pond in the back, not the Lake of Fire.

Turn from the devil

I shot this revival preacher in a high school gym in Cordova, Alabama. The services had been scheduled for the football stadium, but bad weather forced them inside. That made a perfect shot of the Blue Devil, the school's mascot, behind the minister as he appealed to members of the crowd to turn to God.

(You can tell you are in football country when the school's mascot is wearing a grid iron uniform on the wall of the basketball court.)

Jesus in the air

Dave, the nighttime DJ at the now-defunct WNDA in Huntsville. I worked one shift a week at this station from June to December 1995. Such is my experience as a radio disc jockey.

Takin' it to the streets

This was the storefront for Vincent Furniture in Cullman, Ala. There were several Scriptures on various windows of the store.

Liberty wagon

This van was parked on the Beltline in Decatur, Ala.

Bus stop

This isn't really a bus stop. Somebody decided to make money by selling ads on benches, but there aren't any bus stops in Decatur, Ala., so they just put benches on the side of the road, and somebody bought this message.

Jesus is alive and well

And, we presume, at other times as well. Outside a storefront church in Alabama.

Unto you is born this day ...

This spot, in a cave beneath the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is believed to be the exact place Jesus was born. I shot it on a trip to the Holy Land in 1999.

Merry Christmas

Jesus Christ, the cornerstone

The church I grew up in, and was married in, in Cullman, Ala.

Oh, joy

My friend Liz got this result trying to get her son to act out the letters he was holding.

She says:

All I want for Christmas is to make a Christmas card to
share with people. I mean really, we have so much to rejoice and share
with others. I had an idea in my head of what it would look like.
You know, the kids would smile perfectly the first time the shutter snapped,
they would be in focus, and the lighting would show that the kids were made for
movies. Also, I have been wrapping my mind around how to express the joy
and hope that our family can testify too. But alas, kids are moving
targets. It’s cold outside and dark inside. I don’t have words to
share our happiness perfectly. I guess, this is all because nothing is
perfect, but our Father. Even when He shares his blessings with us, we are
still imperfect humans living life the best we can. I still strive for the
“perfect” life, and when I do I am sorely disappointed. I just gotta keep
it real.