“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 the tiny little baby growing in his mother’s womb? Parents start to ask questions. Will my […]
Last week, I began a series that is taking a look at the decline of evangelism in the American church. The first article in the series laid out what people said were the the biggest factors that they felt were holding them back from sharing the gospel. The top three responses that people gave were […]
The birth of your child is supposed to be an unforgettable day of joy and celebration. It is the culmination of nine months of dreams, hopes and prayers. It’s anticipation that builds to one beautiful moment in the hospital delivery room. That was the sort of moment that my parents were hoping for the day […]
So there we were — six of us seated around the table and enjoying each other’s company. Our distinct looking group began to elicit stares. Our group didn’t look like it should go together. At our table were a Lebanese pastor, a bearded evangelist born without arms, a black writer, a white church planter, a […]
“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 the tiny little baby growing in his mother’s womb? Parents start to ask questions. Will my […]
Having been born without arms, there are many things that offered quite a challenge when it came to trying to do them with my feet. Often people will ask me, “What is the hardest thing that you have had to learn to do with your feet?” That is a question that I can answer without an […]
There have been many stops along the way where I have been pushed to the side or overlooked simply because of who I was. I showed up to the first day of kindergarten as excited as could be. I was pumped to meet new friends and to learn new things. Yet, I left the first […]
The fracturing among the Southern Baptist Convention has been quietly building to a crescendo over the past year as the yearly annual convention gathering sits just 3 months away. Convention wide issues – critical race theory & racism, Beth Moore leaving the convention, JD Greear’s SBC leadership – are gaining steam in social media circles […]
So there we were — six of us seated around the table and enjoying each other’s company. Our distinct looking group began to elicit stares. Our group didn’t look like it should go together. At our table were a Lebanese/Brazilian pastor, a bearded pastor born without arms, a black theologian, a white church planter, a […]
Hope is the greatest need of man. A man can survive for a time without food or water, but man struggles to move forward without a sense of hope in their life. Man assumed that hope would be ushered in with a new year and a new administration leading American politics. Man was wrong. The […]
