Last weekend I spoke at a wonderful DNow at a great church, the First Baptist Church of North Mobile. My friends Ed Litton and Scott White are pastor and executive pastor, and my former student and mentee Nathan Schneider is the student pastor. What a blessed time I had speaking to the students and to [...]

Birmingham. Alabama, not England. The Heart of Dixie, the Buckle of the Bible Belt, and the city of my birth. Journey with me back in time to Birmingham circa 1975. My dad worked for decades as a foreman at one of the steel mills Birmingham was known for then. The generation born before 1946, those [...]

Note: The following is adapted from my forthcoming book As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students which can be ordered here. I meet a lot of folks in the church who seem to see culture in general and  young people in particular through a lens of pessimism.  While we have plenty of [...]

Timing matters. It just so happened that the release of my new book As You Go: Creating a Missional Culture of Gospel-Centered Students releases at a time when so many realize the status quo of student ministry must be challenged and changed. It also comes at the time when a gospel recovery sweeps across the [...]

I lead the ministry to Young Professionals (young pros) at Richland Creek Community Church, a young (around 15 years old) Southern Baptist Church that averages about 1800-2000 in worship in four Sunday services. Yesterday we had the joy in our ministry of hearing the story of Save Our Sisters (SOS). I also wrote about them [...]