I’ve been debating whether or not I should post this confession: I wrestle with anxiety…  Sometimes “wrestle” is a generous word. Sometimes I find myself in the thralls of anxiety. Here’s the weird thing- I am not a worrier. I am the dad who gives his kids fireworks and tells them to “go nuts.” But… Read More »

He was fast. So fast, in fact, that the nickname they gave him first belonged to a record breaking locomotive: “The Flying Scotsman.” Eric Liddel was the stuff of legend. So in 1924, when the world looked to Paris to watch the Olympics, everyone wanted to see him run. Except that he would not run…… Read More »

Today should have been beautiful. It was 72 degrees and sunny, and there was a cool breeze that was too perfect for a day in the normally muggy month of July. …But today was the day we buried our babies. Our babies had not been birthed, in fact, we had just gotten to the point… Read More »

May 2nd, 1982. This is the day that I was baptized into Christ. The date itself is burned into my memory because it was written in the cover of the Bible I received a week later from my church family, a cover I opened when we visited other churches to make sure the communion servers… Read More »

I preached my first sermon at the age of 8- and it was terrible. I still cringe thinking about what I made people endure. It was from Acts 7, and I don’t think that I have preached from that text since then. But over the years I have read that passage countless times and it… Read More »

Your grandma isn’t an angel… This is how you’re supposed to do it, right? Start off a blog with a borderline insult to get people’s interest enough to read something? If it makes you feel any better, neither is mine. So rest easy, friends, what I am about to tell you is the furthest thing… Read More »

A while back I heard a sermon from a friend of mine that opened my eyes to what we often regard as a respectable sin- pride. Even now each of our own individual senses of pride are probably scrambling to defend themselves, but if scripture is true (and we know it is) then we must… Read More »

I have had a number of people over the years ask me what my favorite books are. I never do well with that request. I always want to make a “top 5” kind of list into a “top 8, but don’t ask me to rank them” sort of thing. So here is what I’d like… Read More »