New Year’s Resolution

New Year’s Resolution

What’s your New Year’s resolution for 2021? More gym time? Healthier eating? More family time? For me, it’s more prayer time. The events of January 6, 2021, will go down in history as one of America’s darkest days as we watched in horror as domestic terrorists stormed...
Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

The measure of God’s loving sacrifice is incomprehensible. Christ was sent into this world, first confined to the womb of a woman for 9 months… then born a baby in an animal’s stall…later raised in a notoriously bad neighborhood…when He left home and went off to...
Need To Clear Your Mind?

Need To Clear Your Mind?

Try flying. For years I have loved the view from 10, 000 + feet above ground. Somehow everything seems clearer up there. No cell phone reception, devices off, no movies needed for me…just the feeling of soaring above it all somehow settles and refocuses me. Even when...
When Life Gives You Lemons…

When Life Gives You Lemons…

Trust God’s recipe will be better than lemonade because sometimes lemonade just isn’t good enough. I know that “time and chance happens to all.” Yet when the heavens rain lemons, not because you did something wrong, but instead as a result of someone else’s folly, it...
If The Glass Seems Half Empty…

If The Glass Seems Half Empty…

Remember that it is also half full. Several years ago while in seminary, my roommate Michaela and I took our regular trip to the grocery store. Now being a “self-supporting” grad school student, money was, well… tight. As such, nothing was ever wasted, especially...
When Trying to Move Forward…

When Trying to Move Forward…

Choose your friends wisely. Have you ever heard the saying, “if you sleep with dogs you’ll get fleas?” Don’t worry, I know we love our furry friends. The saying is not critiquing dog lovers. It is however a warning about human companions. Growing up, Dad cautioned us...