As a lot of you know, I majored in English in college. I feel like it has served me well in ministry and I’m glad that my daughter Taylor has is doing a double major in History and English at hVanderbilt while my son Riley had an English concentration at UNC-Chapel...
The highlight of this past weekend was a visit from Evan and Kim Wyly. They live in Dallas, Evan has an ownership interest in the Texas Legends of the NBA's D League ... er, now the G League, and so was in Charlotte for the NBA All Star Weekend Shenanigans. Evan and I...
So I have a telescope here with me. Not exactly a high powered one, of course, but nevertheless a version of that which enables us to see the intergalactic and interstellar. And if you were with us last week, we looked through this and saw the...
In Week One of Thank God For Science, we discovered together that although we ask Genesis 1 "how" and "when," it answers back with "who" and "why." Then last week, we went both interstellar and intergalactic and saw the many ways that a finely tuned universe demands a...
While cleaning out some of our file cabinets recently, I came across a file containing many of my old Trentonian columns, including this one on a pair of brothers you may have heard of: Erik and Lyle Menendez. Say WHAT?! At the time, the Menendezes lived in Hopewell,...
Yesterday, sixteen United Methodist clergy from the Western North Carolina Conference began an eight month journey with me into Simplifying The Message And Mulitplying The Impact. This is the second year that I have been able to lead this project and as a lot of you...
This past Saturday, Julie and I traveled over to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to join our son Riley and his wife Natalie for the UNC-Miami overtime thriller. Being there as father & son got me remembering some of unique places my dad took me when I was growing up....
Yesterday's message ... Began with a Guns-N-Roses shoutout & demonstration; Contained three more science "experiments"; Included a very brief "I pray in tongues" confession (something I've done at church several times before); An almost hidden Don Henley lyric...
I think every pastor longs for those Sundays when you set the table, sit back, and watch God work. It seems like that's what happened LAST Sunday as we opened up "Thank God For Science" by looking at "The Wrong Question." Many of you were alternately tearful and...
Over the last couple of months, my Men's LifeGroup and I have been reading through the letters of Paul. We all read the same chapter each day -- at least, we're supposed to! -- and then I send an email with some thoughts and guidance on context, history, and genre. If...