In the 1980′s, Lou Gramm, the front man for the group Foreigner, cried out, “I want to know what love is!  I want you to show me!”   In 1998, the song was rerecorded by Australian singer, Tina Arena, and then in 2009, it was covered again by Mariah Carey.  Evidently, people still want to [...]

Illegal immigration is a big issue here in New Mexico as we are a state that shares a border with Mexico.  I recently attended the 2010 New Mexico Worldview Conference where – among others – Chuck Colson spoke.  After the conference, I attended a pastor’s luncheon where Colson and the other speakers fielded questions. One [...]

I’ve been away from the blogoshpere for a while.  God had some lessons to teach me firsthand.  Several weeks ago, I received news that a dear friend of my family had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that had spread to her bones.  We were shocked.  And so was she. Jacqulyn had been [...]

Our church just spent the weekend with Kevin Higgins, the director of Global Teams – an organization that equips and sends missionary teams all over the world.  We’ve partnered with Kevin over the past sixteen years and have seen an entire church movement emerge in South Asia as a result.  Kevin and I spent a [...]

Hate the sin.  Love the sinner. I’m really starting to hate this saying.  It’s a phrase that has been used repeatedly by Christians over the years who are trying to figure out how to deal with people who live like hell.  For the most part, the Christian world has endorsed it, but I for one, [...]

16 years ago today, I married the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.  We met five years earlier at Taylor University.  It was the second day of school, and I was sitting in a classroom when she walked in.  From the moment I saw her, I couldn’t keep my eyes off of her.  We [...]

Last week, something monumental happened in my family. With the celebration of Taylor’s birthday last Monday, we officially became a home with four teenagers living in it. We knew this day would come, but like with any major catastrophe, we just weren’t ready! Michelle and I could feel the wind picking up, and we could [...]