The way that you apply any given Scripture is flavored by your life experiences.  It’s inevitable.  Hopefully you don’t rely on your life experiences as your interpretive grid, but to work through applications based on where you find yourself in life is appropriate (sorry…I’ll stop the hermeneutics lesson now).
I find myself as a small groups [...]

There are some decisions in our lives that are black and white.  “I need some new clothes, so should I buy them or steal them?”  This is one of those decisions that’s not all that difficult for most people, right?  There’s a right choice and a wrong choice.  A choice that honors God and one [...]

So a few days ago I was disappointed, and today I’m just left shaking my head.  I was looking at the details and speaker lineup for an upcoming conference designed to help pastors and leaders make the best use of social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.).  I looked at each speaker’s bio, and clicked through [...]

This past weekend, Laura, my wife, and I traveled to Atlanta, GA, to visit with small groups pastor Scott Mawdesley, who was generous enough to give us a tour of North Point Community Church and allow us to ask lots of questions about what they do and why they do it.  We also got to [...]

I’m listening to a myriad of music right now.  One artist that I’m really liking is Jon Foreman, lead singer of the band Switchfoot, who has recently recorded four EP’s (Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer), and has also recently recorded an album with Sean Watkins (of Nickel Creek) as the band Fiction Family.  I love [...]

I’ve read the blogs.  I’ve listened to the arguments.  I had even tried it out…a little.  But I hadn’t fully experienced online community.  I would say that there has been some level of “community” developed for me through Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.  Community, for me, though, is one of those things that was always developed [...]

I’m a small groups pastor, and part of my job is training up new small group leaders.  In addition to philosophical/theological/boring stuff that I talk about in new leader trainings, I give practical advice to help them make their small group a success (I know, I know, some of you would argue that good theology [...]

I twittered this the other day, and thought it fitting to fill you in on who Josh Hamilton is:
Just saw Josh Hamilton interviewed @ Home Run Derby say last year’s win paled in comparison to witnessing to millions about Jesus!
Not everybody has a story as vivid and raw as Texas Rangers’ homerun slugger Josh Hamilton. [...]

I rode bikes a fair amount in college.  I was into mountain biking for a while, but I was going to school in west Tennessee, the flattest part of the state.  Not a ton of mountains out there.  So I traded the mountain bike in for a road bike.  I rode some with my [...]

Can I be honest with you for a minute?  I’m a bit disappointed.  Though you would think that an increase in blog traffic would leave me excited, in reality it leaves me shaking my head.
Most of the time, my blog posts have substance.  Though a few, such as “A Waste of 3:41,” “Do you ChaCha?,” [...]