At a gathering of friends, REAL friends. I noticed one friend that was acting super distant. When I moved to their side of the room… they casually moved AWAY. Could I possibly have offended them? We’d both been very busy and hadn’t talked in ages. But for us, that was kind of normal. Then, something […]

When Ashtyn was seven years old, she decided that cheerleading was too boring and she wanted in on the REAL action. So, she signed up to play basketball. That’s great… except for one thing. She was a very “girly girl” and had never even touched a basketball before! At her first game, she dribbled waist-high, then […]

A couple years ago, David and I were on a ridiculously early flight. He was reading the newspaper on his Kindle when the announcement to “turn off your electronic devices” was made. He put it away… for about 2 minutes… then he pulled it back out again. To which, I promptly laughed out loud and […]

One time when I was out shopping, a guy who worked at the store realized that I was a pastor. I guess, he wanted to prove that he was some sort of SUPER Christian, so he walked into my aisle and randomly announced, “Hey, does anybody have a Bible? I think we should get into […]

When we decided to start a new campus in Ferguson-Florissant, David and I began looking for possible locations. We’d drive the streets in the daytime, then I’d go home and have terrible nightmares. As it turned out, we were planning a church in the very same zip code that I’d been abused in by my […]