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Paging C.S. Lewis
It’s late. No one will read this. By now, half the world is asleep, or they’re just getting their day underway. It will slip under the radar, drift off into the ether, and exist only as an entry on my...
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Wherever He Leads
While walking along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me,...
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When Anything Was Possible
This morning, because he was climbing the walls, I put my son in my car and took him for a drive. We ran an errand for work first, then headed down Highway 78, eastbound. We passed through Loganville,...
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Do What You Do
I had coffee this past Sunday with a friend of mine who happens to help writers/creative people transition into new careers. We met at a local coffee shop and chatted briefly about the changes going on...
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For Those Who’ve Lost a Child
I’m currently working on a book of essays for people who have lost a child. I’m looking for folks both recently devastated by their loss and for people who have been able to heal over time to...
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If you try to m…
If you try to make people happy all the time, then you’re not a leader – you’re a clown. – John Maxwell I had the privilege of being part of the live event Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013 today. Not only...
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God is Good, Life is Hard
“I heard something not too long ago,” my friend, Dawn Hood, said one day while we were chatting in her office over coffee. “God is good, life is hard. Don’t get the two confused.” If anyone would...
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30 Minutes to Change a Life
This afternoon, I’m going to speak to a group of at-risk students in Roswell. How I got the gig is through a friend of mine, Sarah P. Zacharias; Sarah is someone who also loves working with students,...
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Into The Deep Blue
Yesterday afternoon, I considered that my opening line for a talk to some at-risk students at Project LIFT might just be throwing up on the lovely blue carpet. It was a deep blue, like the far-out part...
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Graduation
If you have a senior in high school or college, you know darn well what time of year it is. Graduation. That magical time when young people turn the page on a specific portion of their lives and look...
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From Nietzsche …
From Nietzsche - “The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.” Been thinking a lot about endings...
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Graduation Day – Final Sermon
* This is the manuscript for my final sermon as Youth Pastor at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church. After much prayer and thought, my family has stepped away from full-time pastoral work so I can pursue a...
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Falling Down
I fell through the ceiling in my hallway tonight. I was carrying a stupidly heavy box of books from my packed up office (a box that was so I heavy I actually thought to myself: I should probably just...
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Bulldawg: How I Published a Book in a Day
Yesterday, I had a sudden burst of energy and a surplus of time. The end result? I now have a new book available on Amazon (both Kindle version and in paperback). Before you get all impressed, let me...
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Writing Without Being a Jerk
Just a quick tangent: I posted earlier about my new book, and I mentioned in the post that it has language that some people will find offensive. I felt that, creatively, the language was justified...
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God In The Whirlwind?
I haven’t been keeping up with the devastation in Moore, Oklahoma. From what I’ve read, it’s a sad and horrifying natural disaster, and the response of countless people with donations of time, money...
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Play With Me, Daddy
“Play with me, daddy.” I must hear that a couple hundred times a day. Sometimes, I’m ready to play, and it’s tickle fights, wrestling matches, Avengers figures, cars and trucks until we can’t stand it...
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The Dawn of a New Day
Sunrise over Windows XP. For the first time since 2008, my family woke up on a Sunday morning and didn’t get ready to go to Chestnut Grove Baptist Church. In fact, with the exception of three years...
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Beyond The Walls
Yesterday afternoon I found myself balancing on two rocks, trying desperately not to fall into the Chattahoochee River. I was also trying hard not to drop the young man in my arms. Before you freak...
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Together We Go
I’m fortunate to be married to an exceptional woman. Case in point: I had to re-submit my book manuscripts to Amazon and Barnes & Noble because I accidentally misspelled my son’s name in the...
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