Category Life

Today’s my birthday, and it’s my wife’s prerogative to make me feel special today. Last year, it was a surprise pizza party with all our friends. The year before that, she took me to the zoo (one of my favorite…

In a time when there is so much to complain about, I just wanted to say… thanks.   Thanks for reading this blog.   Thanks for supporting my ministry.   Thanks for prayer.   Thanks for being you – for…

My generation has no patience. I can’t stand it. Despite how much we loathed hearing our grandparents lament how we didn’t “know the value of a dollar,” there’s some truth to it. A lot of things have just been handed…

Usually, there are too many things for me to do and not enough hours in the day to accomplish them. Ever since I was married, I’ve learned that I have a whole other life counting on me to come through…

I’m a missionary; every once in awhile, it’s hard to believe, considering the life I get to live. I guess it’s just this old-school definition I had in my head of the word “missionary” – indigenous tribes, dirt floors, mosquitoes, and so…

For those who hadn’t heard, my car broke down about a month ago, as I was driving down I-24 to my ministry’s main office in Georgia. About midway through the trip, my car engine basically blew up.   The 95-degree…

The following is from Jimmy McCarty and is a good treatment of my generation’s struggle with finding significance. Having gone through some impacting life experiences, each step of the way, I’ve found myself wondering, “Is this it? Is this the…

The summer between my junior and senior years of college was a formative one. My girlfriend and I broke up, my best friend left the country, and I no longer sensed the Lord’s tangible presence in my life. As a…

Comedian George Carlin passed away this week. Sometimes, when celebrities die, we dehumanize them, not realizing that they were someone’s son or daughter, a dear husband or wife to a new widow or widower, maybe even somebody’s grandpa or grandma…

In memory of Father’s Day, I’m reposting an edited version of a blog series I wrote awhile back on my search for a spiritual father, a mentor of sorts who would coach me through life’s trials and temptations. As I…