“Some people go to Florida for Spring Break, but we go to Ohio.”  This is what Taylor said as we were running from a store to our car in a freezing rain and sleet storm on the first night in my hometown of Van Wert, Ohio.  Potter Spring Break 2010: Northwest Ohio.
All eight of us [...]

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. – [...]

For the past five years, I’ve attended the Willow Creek Leadership Summit.  It’s a two-day conference for leaders attended by 120,000 leaders around the world and is broadcast live from Willow Creek’s campus – via satellite – to 140 cities all across North America in August each year.  Then, after the summit concludes each year, [...]

One of my favorite Bible teachers is Steve Brown.  He’s been on the radio for years with his daily 15-minute broadcast called, Key Life.  He says “God’s not mad at you!” a lot, and over the years, I’ve begun to actually believe him.  As a recovering legalist, I love it when Steve reminds me of [...]

I told you in one of my earlier blogs that we pastors are known for stealing. My buddy, Tony, corrected me and said that we pastors don’t steal, we “appropriate.” That sounds better to me…and much more pastoral too, so I’ll go with it. Allow me then to “appropriate” a blog from Jon Bloom, [...]

I have a mentor that most of you probably don’t know. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t even know that he’s my mentor, but he’s been that for me for over twenty years. He’s a man who lives his life behind a microphone, and for over twenty years I have listened to his daily [...]