Okay today is Saturday. But after the day I had yesterday, adding a photo to my blog hardly seemed a priority. This is also a photo from last year, since my Delta (which stands for Doesn’t Ever Leave The Airport) flight kept me from saying more than hi to Shane and Shane at the conference [...]

Every year, and now on this blog, I get requests for suggested reading/bibliography on a variety of subjects. I doubt whether my list would be different or more helful than others, but it perhaps will provide a starting point for others to engage in meaningful conversation on the subject at hand. I teach each summer [...]

Back in my seminary days at SWBTS my wife and I were members for a while at Wedgwood Baptist (Jerry Sutton was pastor). I volunteered with the youth on Wednesdays with others students, including George Guthrie, now at Union University (and can he play a piano), and Erwin McManus, now at Mosaic in LA. Erwin [...]

See my new toy. I have wanted an acoustic bass for years. I got to play it Sunday PM at Epicenter, and it was a treat! It was also great to have Matt Lytle, PhD student and musician, to lead us, and to have Josh giving some rhythm with the djembe and Daniel Moore adding [...]

I love teenagers. This is a group from Longview Heights Baptist Church in Mississippi just south of Memphis. The band and I did a DNow there in February. This is one of the greatest groups of students ever. The two fine looking students in the front are our Hannah and Josh.