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 experiencing [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Was it just me, or did most of the people in attendance at President Obama’s speech on Tuesday night look like they’d rather have been ANYWHERE except for there? When the cameras panned the crowd, the congressional leaders looked like they were either asleep, mad, uninterested, or all of the above. And then [...]

I would love to be able to blog more often. I really enjoy writing, and I enjoy the conversation that it provides (both through the blog and through personal contact). However, I’m usually consumed with writing on a weekly basis. Between writing a weekly sermon, writing for the weekly Men’s Fraternity, and [...]

I was running on the treadmill yesterday, pondering the new year. At the same time, I was listening to a song by a (now defunct) band called Church of Rhythm. They were a group of guys from WillowCreek Church in Chicago who put out two really good albums in the 1990’s. One [...]

Michelle and I went to a wedding this past weekend in Detroit. A dear friend of ours who was present at the births of Alexis and Taylor (she was the cinematographer) finally got married. I say “finally” not out of disrespect but out of sheer joy. She is a beautiful, godly woman and has been [...]

The whole idea of being a member of an organization or club rubs me the wrong way, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’m a Gen X’er, and we are known for our cynicism and skepticism.
Or maybe it has something to do with my past membership [...]