If you know me, you know I love students and love to see God move among them. I also love my students and love to see God use them. A student I taught for some years who became very close to me is Matt Lawson. His wife Laura, who finished at our college, has been very close to our daughter Hannah.  Matt has been student pastor at the First Baptist Church of Woodstock for a year or so. He sent … →

I have always been intrigued with anything that helps me communicate with friends and those I want to encourage. Being a Barnabas by nature and a lover of people I tend to latch on to anything that connects me to others. Add to that my merry travels where the Lord allows me to meet so many very amazing people and I am so thankful that technology like Facebook helps me to connect. When the phenomenon of Instant Messaging emerged I … →

  We celebrate birthdays as milestones each year.  But as we grow older we do not so much live our lives year by year but by chapters.  Even if you are still in your youth you can probably look back and see how your life has been lived in two, or three, or perhaps four distinct chapters.  Some are easy to see: preschool years, elementary school, etc. For most getting a drivers license turns one’s life into an entirely new … →

One of the greatest treasures in this life is a good friend. You will have lived a good life for the Lord Jesus if during the course of life you may a few good, deep, lifelong friends. I have such a friend in Ed Litton. Ed and I met in seminary. He came to preach at the church I struggled to serve as pastor, ignorant as I was. God used him that week.  Although my age, he was and remains … →