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By the way, here’s a true confession… I hate rollercoasters.  Yeah, I know that makes me a hypocrite now with all the rollercoaster talk. They say there’s always some point at which an analogy falls apart. For me, it’s where you actually board a rollercoaster.  I simply don’t trust those hastily-assembled rust-buckets you’d find at your…

I hate finding pictures from my childhood. I’ll be cruising through a photo album and it’s like being blindsided by a 300 pound tackle.  Speaking of 300 pounds… I was a fat, lonely kid with a lousy home life and no friends. Seriously, none. A slew of allergies, asthma and a particularly weird skin ailment…

Growing up in a southern Baptist church, every Easter there were two hymns you had to sing…or you probably weren’t really Baptist. One was “Low in the Grave He Lay”. Most people don’t remember it by that title, but by the bouncy chorus that interrupts the sad, mournful verse. After lamenting the crucified Jesus, suddenly…

Scared yet? I think my least favorite phrase for the past year is “an abundance of caution”. Like you, this week I’ve turned on the news every morning to make sure the zombie apocalypse hasn’t started yet. Over the next few weeks I believe the things I’ll most be thankful for will be: my Jesus, my health,…

So it was around 8 months ago that God led us to leave our home and my pastorate and relocate in Knoxville, TN. It was a step of faith, a hard step, and we hoped God had something special for us on the other side. And indeed He did…just not at all what we expected.…

Some people say, "If you love something, set it free. If it returns, then it's truly yours... ...but if it doesn't return....hunt it down and kill it! Just kidding...sort of. One of the main things we need to embrace about life is not just the " hellos" but also the "goodbyes". For example... I still remember a painful…

People often laugh when anyone mentions a "war against Christmas" by secularists. They make fun of the misguided numbskulls who see conspiracies in every Starbucks Christmas cup design, pointing to agendas found only in their own imaginations. No, not everyone who merely says "happy holidays" is trying to erase the Biblical origins of the season. But…