I realize that when most people don’t know what to do they do what they always do. In other words, when faced with uncertainty, crisis, or chaos, most of us revert back to what is comfortable and fall back into the familiar. This realization is especially instructive for those involved in any kind of spiritual Read the full article…

Yesterday included two events not normally on my ministry schedule:  1) a pre-school celebration for our 2s & 3s classes and 2) a high school girls’ softball game, cheering on a couple of young women from our church. So why do I label today’s post “Tuesday Trips”? Because both events were for me trips down Read the full article…

Rock music is full of songs named after . . . females. (Note: I almost titled the post “Named After Girls” but that’s politically incorrect and I then almost opted for “Named After Women” but that’s less-than-accurate, so I opted for the non-offensive and generally truthful “Named After Females.”  So there.) Some of the most well-known Read the full article…

Back when I was in seminary and serving an internship in a small church in central Kentucky, the pastor let me preach on the second Sunday in May.  So I did.  I have no idea what I preached about. Except that I didn’t preach about mothers. Afterwards, I was sort of baffled by all the Read the full article…