I took my wife on a date last night.  We went to 3rd and Lindsley, a bar & grill in downtown Nashville, to eat and listen to music.  We both enjoy music from the singer-songwriter genre, and though neither of us were too familiar with the lineup of musicians, we enjoyed the night. (as a [...]

One of my pet peeves in leadership is when I’m given a leadership responsibility, but not given any authority to make decisions.  Have you ever run into this? You’re delegated a task, but not been trusted enough to answer questions, set any sort of direction for the project, or answer questions about the current or [...]

Technology and social media continues to change, whether you like it or not.  Are you adapting, too, or are you being left behind?
Some of these facts will shock you.

We sang this song this past Sunday at Grace:
Jesus Paid it All
I hear the Savior say
Thy strength indeed is small
Child of weakness watch and pray
Find in me thine all in all
Jesus paid it all
All to him I owe
Sin had left a crimson stain
He washed it white as snow
Lord now indeed I find
Thy power and thine [...]

I visited a church recently, and found it to be less than friendly.  In fact, we felt like we were outsiders.
They used lots of “insider” language, barely acknowledged that visitors were even present, and talked about situations that one would only know about if he or she were a regular attender.
The problem, as I saw [...]

I serve at an unbelievably awesome church.  I won’t go into all of the reasons why I feel that way, but I’ll talk about one reason here.
We are a church that cares about families.  One way that we do that is by giving parents and children opportunities to talk about important matters of faith.  Children [...]

I recently attended a Major League Baseball game in Atlanta, GA, where the Braves took on the Cincinnati Reds.  I had a great time!  I just love going to the ballpark, and all the sights, smells, and tastes (I have to get peanuts when I go) of the whole experience.  But something struck me as [...]

Fear is one of those things that, at some level, we all face.  Fear of spiders, of being mugged in a dark alley, of being diagnosed with a terminal illness, of losing our children, of failing, or of leaving the curling iron on and burning the house down.  At the end of the day, our [...]

I had stepped out of the room and left my son to himself for just a second.  Typically, I hear him all of the time.  Sometimes he’s banging a toy on the table…or hitting his head on it…or crying…or crawling.  This time, when I stepped out, I listened for him, but couldn’t hear him.  As [...]