It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is already on us. Yet, the time has come for families to come together, gorge themselves on home cooking and fall into a food induced nap while the Cowboys game carries on in the background. With all the traveling, food prep and catching up with family we can […]
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As we’ve all come to know, to be human is to suffer. Everywhere we look – from sick relatives to the flooding from Hurricane Harvey – affliction is not lacking. Where can there be hope in a world like that? Hope comes from a Savior who suffers and who can sympathize. Hope comes in Jesus […]
With Father’s Day now 9 days away, you need to pull the trigger on your gift ideas in the next few days if you want Amazon Prime to ship your stuff on time. I’ll be the first to admit that every gift list has a bias to the writer – and in this case that […]
“We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don’t even notice the most important things slipping away.” ~ Kevin DeYoung This past week I had the opportunity to share with a group of student pastors on “Balancing Ministry and Life.” In talking through finding balance in our busy lives, all of the student […]
I had the opportunity to fill in for our pastor last Sunday and gladly preached the week after Easter. We took time to look at Luke 24 and how the Resurrection impacts the believer more than just one weekend a year. If you have some time I pray God’s Word would build you up […]
***If you haven’t heard Mark Driscoll’s interview with Brian Houston, it will provide a glimpse into Driscoll’s heart nearly a year after he stepped away from Mars Hill Church. You can see that lengthy interview here.*** Flash back to 2011. In evangelical Christian circles, there were few pastors in America who held a more successful […]
***This is an article originally written by me for Desiring God. You can view it here.*** “You are going to have a healthy baby boy.” Those are the words every expectant couple wants to hear. But what happens when a couple gets the most stomach-churning news imaginable — news that there’s a medical issue with […]
A couple of weeks ago Forbes Magazine polled workers from over 400 different careers and asked these workers if they felt that their work provided meaning in their lives and if they felt their job changed the world. The survey data was collected and used to created a metric for the world’s most meaningful jobs. […]
In the past few days reports of ISIS beheading 21 Egyptians in Libya began to make its way through American news wires and social media outlets. As I began to read the accounts of the horror and evil being played out half a world away, my stomach was sickened. My heart broke. I was filled […]
I’m a guy who loves to read in my spare time (whenever that happens to come in ministry life). This year I have come across a few duds when it comes to quality books, but there have also been quite a few great books that I would highly recommend. So take a look at my Top […]