Last week I spent some time doing what I truly love in the summer, speaking to youth. I especially love a week like the last one because 1) my family was with me, 2) I served with the guys I love, including Jeff Capps, Josh Hicks, my son Josh, and a rare joy to work [...]

(warning to reader-sometimes blogs are far too narcissistic and egocentric, where the blogger simply opines about himself or herself as if anyone really cares. If you are annoyed by such dribble, feel free to skip the below as I have succumbed to the temptation myself!) Today is June 19, a day before my son’s birthday [...]

One of the links below on my site for some time has been to “Between the Times.” If you keep up with blogville you know from Nathan Finn’s fine site that Between the Times has a new focus.  If you have not checked it out I highly encourage you to do so. David Nelson, my [...]

The year 1989 signaled more for me than a decade of bad music (except for U2 I suppose).  That year I finished decades of formal education, completing all but my dissertation for the PhD.  Early in the year I sent my resume to every SBC college, university, and seminary.  The response I received was less [...]

Okay, I am on vacation so I missed Sunday. This weekend I had the joy of hanging out with a pile of single adults from the great Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte. HGBC has two campuses, Main and North. They stole, er, called one of my colleagues, Stephen Rummage, a few years back. But [...]