Can God Make a Dog That’s Too Big for Him to Walk?

Maverick is a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog and he’s an absolute brute. He is a really sweet boy and would never intentionally hurt anyone. However, watching him pulverize and scarf down a half chicken for lunch engenders a greater sense of reverence with each crunch. He’s not mean or aggressive in the slightest, he’s just...

Will Dogs Be In Heaven?

Will dogs be in Heaven? More importantly, will my dog be in Heaven? Will Scruffy be waiting for me at the pearly gates, ready to lick my face and beg for “people food”? Let me preface this post by expounding a bit on my love for these wonderful creatures. Some of you had to beg...

Terrible Terriers

They bark, they yap, they yip, they yarp,   These dogs, they do not quit! They’ll eat you out of house and home,  And on your floor they’ll… poop. Short and stout, with chest puffed out,  They rule your house as lord.  That is until, that noise so shrill,  they hear the ironing board.  You may...

Why Do We Care About Animals?

[this content has been adapted and expanded upon from my extremely long blog post/Christian manifesto, Why I Believe In God]  "Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock...

On Dogs and Foolishness

God has taught me countless lessons in my 25 years on this earth but the ones that stick with me most are the lessons He's taught me through dogs. Dogs are the best! You know it, I know it, we all know it. Most often, these dog lessons come as a result of reading my...

Dogs: An Analogy For God’s Love

There are thousands of reasons why Dogs are man's best friends. One of the reasons I love my dogs so much is because they are continual analogies for God's love. By shifting perspectives between my dogs and myself I get a slight glimpse of the love that God has for his creatures and especially those...

Dogs Without Owners

  I absolutely love dogs. Anyone who's been over to the Settecase house for dinner knows my family can't make it very long without turning the conversation to dogs. Dog hero stories, dog horror stories, happy dogs, horny dogs, hairy dogs, furry dogs, it really doesn't matter we will go there, we love dogs. We...