Archive for November, 2006

Note: Alot of people today are talking about being missional. Being a rather bottom-line kind of guy, I thought this article I wrote a few years back for Home Life might add a little to the conversation in a very practical manner: I’ll never forget the first time I went to England. My college choir [...]

I love animals. Always have. So it was a really great day when I met Dan breeding of creaturesofcreation.org. Here is a big gator he let me hold one day (very carefully as it is big enough to kill me). I use big gators and snakes to help students overcome their fear of witnessing . [...]

One day a friend recounted to me a sad but true story from his childhood. It occurred in the late 1960s, when David was about eight years old. On a Sunday night service at his church, a hippie family came to their church. The husband had a scruffy beard, and they were all wearing beads. [...]

Academicus is the publication of the PhD department at SEBTS. Nathan Finn recently composed an article dealing with scholarship and blogging. Nathan interviewed several faculty including yours truly. You can read it online at: http://sebts.edu/PhD/Academicus/

Our son Josh is playing football his senior year for the North Raleigh Christian Academy Knights. He is the strong guard, playing next to a 300 pound giant tackle (Josh is not in this picture). As a typical, proud father, I screamed like a fool the whole game (all positive, I am a veteran of [...]

I confess I was born to teach. Today I welcomed over a hundred students–eager, excited, and some a bit apprehensive–and tomorrow many more. After my family, teaching turns my crank more than just about anything. That is why my presence in the blog world, such that it is, will soon diminish dramatically. I have to [...]

I have always had a love for studying (and even more being a part of) movements of God, from my childhood when our small church erupted in the Jesus Movement to teaching courses on the subject today. Santyana said those that do not learn from history are doomed to relive it. I think those who [...]

One of the awesome blessings of teaching at SEBTS/SECWF is the fact that some of the sharpest young adults hang out with my kids. This is Melissa (right) and Hannah, our 13 year old. Melissa is a college student who loves to do stuff with hannah and hannah with her. This is Jeff Capps, who [...]

This past week I got to meet Chris Mortensen, NFL expert on ESPN and a believer. His football stories were only surpassed by his testimony of salvation, which was quite encouraging. It made me think of this article I wrote a while back, adapted a little for now… Football has had an enduring affect on [...]

Last fall a student named Joy sat way up in the back of my class, no doubt nervous about taking evangelism. As the semester went on, Joy came by the office and shared with me her burden for Desiree, her coworker and friend back home near Asheville, NC. Joy so longed to see Desiree come [...]