"Better luck next time." Those words are forever seared into my consciousness. It was a phone call no one ever wishes to make. My wife, Beth, and I had come home after receiving confirmation our worst fears ...

It was all over in a matter of hours... Gone were the conversations revolving around poverty, hunger and injustice during our mission trip. They were replaced by the purchasing of our wants that had become n...

This past year, my 3-year-old was hanging out in my office while his brother was at preschool. Suddenly, he stopped playing and pointed to an object on my desk. He kept pointing and proceeded to ask what this s...

When I have a moment, I sometimes reminisce about the different churches I have served through the years. I see the faces of the adults and youth with whom I have shared life. From time to time, I occasionally ...

Whether I had heard about it from someone else, read about it on a blog or had a nudge from the Spirit as some would say, I was stunned. The vulnerability and honesty was a breath of fresh air. The masks we all...

Silence and awe was all I could offer. No longer was I the teacher. For God was teaching me through the youth I was called to shepherd. Like the saying goes, the teacher had become the student.We started out th...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”Perhaps the most famous opening line Charles Dickens ever penned in A Tale of Two Cities speaks to a truth which could have come out of a ...

What happens when the phone rings in the middle of night? How would you respond if one of your youth group members was being rushed to the hospital with a serious illness?I know what you are thinking because it...

Bump, set, spike. The game was over. As I thanked her for the invitation, she asked me a question. Her parents couldn’t make it, and she was wondering if I could take her home. I panicked! The warning sig...

You have to do more, you have to succeed, and you have to be the best. This is the mantra of the American Dream, and I had accepted it wholeheartedly. I wanted to have an awesome walk with God, be the best you...