Archive for November, 2006

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

I found out this week my most recent book, Join the Movement, has been named a finalist for Outreach Magazine’s Resource of the Year in the youth outreach category.  I am grateful that my efforts to challenge and encourage youth to live for Jesus has been so recognized. The true award, of course, is in [...]

Pendulums tend to swing from one extreme to another. We see this in the life of the American church. In particular I have observed the tendency of many to go to one extreme or another in their personal walk with Christ. On the one hand you have what I would call the Christian Geeks. These [...]

The other day I arose really early to catch a plane to Atlanta. Monday morning early is not the time to be in an airport. The whole planet seems to be flying somewhere then, and that morning the whole state of North Carolina appeared to be at RDU International. I flew to my meeting, an [...]