I had to laugh this morning as I read John 21. Jesus calls out from the shoreline to the disciples who were struggling with their morning...

If you were to ask someone to describe you as a lion or a lamb, most men would choose lion. There is something especially masculine and...

“We are, of course, creatures who if left to ourselves, would promote ourselves without any reference to God or preference for Him. It is...

There are so many occurrences in the Bible that are only mentioned once.  For instance, there is only one recorded instance of Jesus...

In his book, The Contemplative Pastor, Eugene Peterson writes a powerful chapter titled The Apocalyptic Pastor. Within that chapter he...

Semantics can be an appropriate pain. The first question you may ask is, “What constitutes as dysfunctional?” For dysfunction to exist we...

Walking down the quaint city streets of Sausalito, California, full of high-end mom and pop shops, I stumbled upon this delightful...

Of course it’s possible that the tongue would flap forming incoherent and generally disruptive sounds of no value, however for most of us...

Once in a blue moon I may return home from a trip to the grocery store and find that one of the products I had purchased had been...

There is a lot to be said in the Scriptures about self-control. We know that is a Fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23), it’s the result of...

Immortalized in cinematic history, this classic Academy Award winning ballad was written in 1939 and sung by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz...

A book I try to read every year is “A Tale of Three Kings” by Gene Edwards. Few books challenge my leadership and servanthood as this...

The reactions of A&E are not much different than my own at any given moment. It’s how we’re wired, humanity. There is this innate desire...

Family can be the most frustratingly essential joy known to man. I meet with a friend almost every Friday at 7am for breakfast and I am...

I’m sitting at a church planting conference in Williamsburg, VA and it is exciting to watch men and women with Kingdom Vision gathered...

So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, “Go over before the...

I’m sitting in my office right now preparing the lecture for a class I’m teaching this Friday, “Introduction to Pastoral Ministry”. As...

Where does the road of decision and expectation meet in a world that is clogged with the traffic of emotional clutter and spiritual...

First off let me set my world view in the proper context. I am a follower of Jesus Christ and everything I see is filtered through...

Growing up in a Pastor’s home has its fill of blessings but often times those blessings are engulfed by tumultuous conflicts and...