I had to do something that broke my heart last week. I actually blocked a friend on Facebook.
Blocking him made me extremely sad. But he just couldn't resist getting combative with me every single time I hit his “hot button issues”, even though I always try to stay away from hot buttons. When I…
I remember the first time someone called me “pastor” and it finally felt normal.
Actually, I only thought they were saying “pastor”. I was in a Starbucks I frequent, and someone called out something like “faster”. It could have even been “disaster”, but I’ve been called that before.
But after I turned around to look, I caught…
I'll never forget the day when after a nearly 9-month interview process, after answering the world’s longest questionnaire, after having the specter of a possible move over my head while trying to go on at my church like nothing’s happening, I got word I would not be called as the new pastor of First Baptist,…
NOTE: I wrote this article on Easter Sunday, 2017. I've waited until now to publish it.
I remember driving past an ugly little country church one Easter. The sign out front said simply “He is not here”. From some churches I’ve been in, I knew that sign was probably a great example of truth-in-advertising…
Well, it’s…