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Me, Patience and Moby Dick
May 13, 2017
A legitimate perspective of time, coupled with the virtue of patience, intertwines us with the nature of God. Patience makes us like God, who has not allowed himself to be hurried, and processes His plans according to His own pace and space. Some have said the chasm between expectation andRead More -
Time…
April 25, 2017
Time is not the ticking of the clock…Long before mankind devised a system for keeping track of the rotation of the earth and its journey around the sun, time existed. Time is timeless, eternal, and intrinsically intertwined with our Triune God. Time is not a deity but an entity ofRead More -
Screaming Baby / Impatient Dad
April 24, 2017
It was the wee hours of a bleary eyed night in 2010. Michelle and I were roughly a week into parenthood. We were well read in all the experts of parenting and had taken detailed mental notes from the sages of child rearing in our life. We could recite the age-old wisdom in our sleep…if we wereRead More -
Do you hate losing, or do you love winning?
April 17, 2017
I have been a sports junky since my elementary school days. When we were younger, my wife once quipped that if my knowledge of the bible rivaled my base of useless sports knowledge, I would be a much better preacher…thanks for the encouragement. While my sports interests and viewing haveRead More -
Am I Becoming Baptist?
April 13, 2017
Okay, I will admit the title was to get your attention…a bait and switch if you will. I will also admit, for the bulk of my life I have lived in a theological echo chamber. I would venture to say this is common for most of us, in that we trend toward surrounding ourselves with people of similarRead More -
Family Values…
March 29, 2017
I have used the phrase “Core Values” many, many times when speaking of our family life and ministry assignment. In prayer I felt compelled to write those values in my Bible reading log and be mindful in prayer as I wrote, asking for the grace to live in such a manner. The values I put to paperRead More -
The irony of generational divides
March 27, 2017
“You teach what you know, but you reproduce who you are.” (old leadership adage) I don’t know Frank Martin, the head basketball coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks. What little information I do have has largely been gathered as I have watched my beloved Tennessee Vols struggle to beat hisRead More -
Abortion/The Church/Orphans
March 15, 2017
Roughly a decade ago I stood on the steps of the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C., on my mouth was a strip of red tape with the word LIFE inscribed in black Sharpie. I stood with a company of radical believers, wild faith in our hearts and Kingdom mission flowing through our veins. WeRead More -
Whose Builder and Maker is God…
March 14, 2017
During the summers of my teen years I often found myself ankle deep in wet concrete. Usually I had one hand gripped on an archaic tool (torture device) called a “come along” and the other hand making a feeble attempt to wipe the sweat from my face. My dad owned a concrete finishing company thatRead More