As Andy Williams famously sang, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” However, if we aren’t intentional to prioritize the Wonderful One of the season – Jesus – before we know it, our hearts and schedules will…
Anyone who spends time in the world of teenagers and student ministry knows that their “language” changes over time. Words and phrases come in and out of vogue. New phrases get coined and then quickly fall out of…
2016 has been a hard year for our country. Terrorism has kept us fearful and grieving. The Presidential election has us exhausted and uncertain. And suffering on a personal level continues to keep us on our knees, in…
Integrity is pretty important. No person wants to live without it. But how often do we really stop long enough to question what “integrity” actually is? If you’re anything like me, integrity makes you think about someone who…
I begin my Genesis class with a lesson on misconceptions about the character of God, which helps students really examine what they believe about God and why.
I remember asking students in the first Bible study group I graduated, “What is the gospel?” After two years of investment, all I received were blank stares. Crushing. Now I ask my students to define the gospel at…
I am not getting any younger. I am 35 years old, I have a wife, three children, and an emotionally needy cat. The gray hairs are starting to overpower the brown, which was once a golden blonde. I…
1 Peter 5 says, “So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd…
The original audience for this short essay were small group leaders at Redeemer Community Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to help them facilitate constructive discussions in the days following the election. We hope these words will also resonate with…
