Trends and a Bold NFL prediction I am not a sports prognosticator. I am also not any kind of expert on the comings and goings of the NFL. I consider my self a Jaguars fan in recovery. At this time every year, I always seem to have a slight glimmer…

Ashamed to be American…really? After celebrating a relatively quiet and wonderful Independence Day, I find my self slightly appalled as I return to the normalcy of life and beginning of a new work week. While driving to a work appointment, I was listening to the local radio news station for…

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 I love this passage of scripture. Each time I re-read this verse, I cannot help but get just a little excited. Why you may be wondering…please allow…

As a church planter, husband, father and all around manly man.I feel the need to confessthat I have a love-hate relationship with accountability. I find my self 58 years into life, 38 years into a marriage, 36 years as a father, six years into our planting/revitalization journey, and I have…

Participation in life is not optional. At some level, everyone has to engage. We have to realize and accept that some days are going to be rainy and cold. I am writing this blog today because I want to know and understand when we as a society lost the ability…

Good morning, after completing my morning routine of drinking coffee and watching the local and then national news I cannot help but think the world would be a better place if we made it a point to be kind to one another. I read again this morning the great Apostle…

In the past year and a half, I have been noticing a trend that we as a people are going to have to think through. We have become so desensitized and overwhelmed by all that is taking place in the news around us. …

I am wondering where honor has gone? Has anyone seen this virtue lately? I find myself blown away by how things are playing out in our daily culture here in this beautiful country that I call home. Common decency seems to have been replaced with cruel speech or hateful actions…

Time keeps on slipping slipping slipping, into the future. As time is doing its part by keeping on, I realize I am getting older. As I age, I know that I am getting better at dealing with stressful situations that used to cause me angst. We live in a crazy…