Graduation Gift

It’s wild to think that I released Freshman 15 a year ago.  As graduation time approaches, if you need a book for a graduating senior, you might think about giving this a try.  I wrote it in part because I got so many books that were a tad fluffy when I graduated.  They were high …

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What Do You Wish Someone Would Have Told You About Marriage?

Last year, I wrote curriculum for LifeWay’s LifeTruths.  The topic was called “I (Still) Do.”  May has been the month it has been used by over 2000 churches for their Sunday School and Bible study curriculum!  Pretty wild to think about. It has been so neat to hear from people that I know and even …

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The Most Misinterpreted Verse in the Bible

Today was a great day to be a part of North Side. The praise band led us in this amazing time of “unplugged” worship (have I told you people lately I am working myself out of a job?!) – thank you Eric, John, Peggy, and Leah.  Breathtaking and genuine: Made to Worship – Chris Tomlin …

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Caption Please: Sunday Kiss

This picture was taken between the 2nd and 3rd services on Sunday.  Eli was speaking a mixture of 3 languages, so not sure what he was saying. I know what he did. So, use your creativity, what’s the caption of this picture?  What’s going on inside this boy’s head?

Praying for Your Worship Team

Continuing in this month’s focus for our worship teams to pray fervently and specifically, I have another prayer point this week: pray for the members of your worship team. Every Sunday before we lead worship, our team huddles up, grabs a hand, prays for the person on their right, then on their left.  Prayer is …

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The Green-Eyed Monster

Jealousy: The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), in turn from the Greek word ζήλος (zēlos), sometimes “jealousy”, but more often in a positive sense “emulation, ardour, zeal” [9][10] (with a root connoting “to boil, ferment“; or “yeast”). The color green is often associated with jealousy and envy, from which the expressions …

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“Coming Home” on iTunes and Amazon

Excited to tell you today that “Coming Home” has been released on iTunes and Amazon! This musical endeavor was a labor of love comprised of songs that I have written at our church and in our home.  I recorded it to serve as a fundraiser for our adoption effort of Eli.  I’m now praying to …

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What Submission Doesn’t Mean

…submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is head of the wife as also Christ is head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives should [submit] to their …

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The Church on the Move

Today was a great Mother’s Day at North Side. Our family dedicated Eli along with many other families dedicating their homes to new additions.  Such a great time to introduce the new Agnew to the church family. The praise band did a wonderful job (without me again – I’m really going to lose my job …

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Eli is Making Me a Better Father…to Obadiah (Happy 2nd Birthday)

Before I left for Ethiopia to pick up Eli, Obadiah had begun a testing phase entering into the two-year-old realm.  Nothing major, just regular two-year-old behavior.  While it might have been typical, I was not amused. I came back from Ethiopia a changed man.  You can’t experience the great needs and the extreme tests present …

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