The Importance of Over-Thinking Your Worship Music
One of my students asked me for an example of a song that I used to sing when I was in high school. For whatever reason, the “I like bananas” song popped into my head and that’s what…
One of my students asked me for an example of a song that I used to sing when I was in high school. For whatever reason, the “I like bananas” song popped into my head and that’s what…
Several years ago during my first year as a student pastor, I met a man for coffee who would later become a mentor. As I anxiously awaited our first meeting, I played out several different scenarios of how…
How to Be a Mom in 2017: Make sure your children’s academic, emotional, psychological, mental, spiritual, physical, nutritional, and social needs are met while being careful not to overstimulate, under stimulate, improperly medicate, helicopter or neglect them in…
Joyful, joyful, we adore You, God of glory, Lord of love; Hearts unfold like flowers before You, Opening to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; Drive the dark of doubt away; Giver of immortal…
Several months ago, I had one of the most encouraging yet challenging conversations I’ve had in a long time. I wish you could have been with me that afternoon! Before leaving my car to enter their house, I…
Once a year I consider moving to a hut on the island of Fiji. That time of year is usually at the beginning of August, when parents are confronted with the entirety of the semester in all of…
Barb is a nice enough girl, but she feels like she doesn’t have any “real” friends – friends who she can share her deepest and darkest with. Friends who give to her as much as she puts in…
To be clear, I’m not talking about crushing the dreams of every 8-year old. Or my current dreams…don’t do that. But after my freshman year of college, one of the graduating seniors whom I looked up to most…
I was recently thrown into the 30,000-person mission field that is a state-school university. After graduating high school, I felt like I had wasted countless opportunities to make an impact, so I was so excited about the chance…