Pages replete with incomplete thoughts.
…send your roots out toward his stream of living water in all seasons, that you may yield your fruit your season.
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A list of places I’ve been published.
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My wife is literally good at everything she does, and that includes photography!
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I’ve been reading The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby (Quote List in the coming weeks). Though the book came out last year, I’m only getting to it now. While I knew I would agree with the thesis the book argues (captured in the subtitle), I’m…
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Olive June Boga was born Wednesday October 31, 2018. She was no bigger than the distance between two of my knuckles, but she had beautiful eyes, a heart, fingers, and toes. She was, and remains, our daughter. We cared for her as best we could, and we love her with our whole hearts. Olive June was miscarried at eight weeks.
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Recently, a woman in our church asked if she would be able to come to the building during the week and clean. Yep. You read that right. She ASKED if she could come to do the work that a relatively small amount of people are even willing to do when they must, let alone volunteer for it.
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Wisdom involves knowledge, but it’s far more than that. Wisdom is knowledge in action. Or I should say, wisdom is knowledge in right action.
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Sharks frighten me.
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website, I wrote about how the Bible actually uses the word hope, and how the true hope we have in Jesus Christ should compel us to live changed lives.
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Though vocational pastoral ministry is a job like any other in many ways, it’s also distinctly different. I reflected on this difference recently over at 9Marks.
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Recently, we realized that many of the men and women attending the Bible studies at our church can go through a guide and come prepared to discuss the text with their groups. However, when they are on their own–Bible in one hand and coffee in the other–they aren’t so sure what they should do. To…
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website, I wrote about how the Bible actually uses the word hope, and how the true hope we have in Jesus Christ should compel us to live changed lives.
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As a pastor who is still fairly new to vocational ministry, I was not only honored to be asked to review this book by 9Marks, but I was excited to. Any opportunity to glean wisdom from men that have gone before me in this calling is an opportunity I want to take advantage of.
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The beauty here is that we all fall into one category or the other. We all either lean toward avoiding God by keeping his commands or avoiding him by breaking them. But in either case, we’re trying to be the rulers of our own lives.
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In 2016 I knew many who pinched their nose and voted for this president…People weren’t pinching their noses anymore. They had gotten used to the smell and were breathing deep.
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The Drawing Board 