I confess, along with most of you, to have not known or (sadly) cared much about what was going on in Egypt the past 30 years. However, I’ve been greatly fascinated by a nation’s people forcing democracy into place. I hope the Middle East is never the same because of the past 3 weeks and [...]

I overheard this a few weeks ago: Anyone can grab the lowest hanging fruit. I believe there’s a lot of truth to the statement. It is incredibly easy to sink to the lowest common denominator, but once you go there you become no different. I think this show itself all over the place in life. [...]

Watching the Super Bowl on Sunday night I had this somewhat random thought: The Super Bowl isn’t too much different than a well produced church service. My disclaimer to that is I fully recognize the MAJOR differences between them. But for the sake of this post, let’s consider the similarities. Before the service (game) starts [...]

People make fun of me a lot, but I do follow the weather pretty closely. What a bizarre week where it seemed like half of the nation was out of school and off work because of snow. All the while, we’ve only had a few drops of the rain in the past 3 weeks. As [...]

I’m not a big fan of quotes but lately I’ve been latching onto a few. The last few months of life have felt heavy. Work is draining, church is struggling, and a few other things in life that are probably best not to be shared here. I ran across this quote yesterday that gave such [...]

After reading this post from Rhett, I began to think about how I’ve learned to be a man in today’s world. My favorite show on television is Friday Night Lights. Season 5 is running for DirectTV users right now and it will run on NBC for everyone else later this spring. It will be the [...]