Photo by Holly Keable on Unsplash; Edited in Canva Last month, our men’s ministry tried something new. Instead of a normal meeting, we had a MEATing. We all brought some sort of meat: steak, hot dogs, venison, barbecue, and one guy even brought some turkey burgers! He is the healthy one. We cooked out over a campfire (or a grill), talked, and played some games: cornhole and horseshoes. It was a great time...until it got dark. We still played anyway. At one point someone joked

This past week, while substitute teaching at the local middle school, a couple of kids came up to me at lunch fussing about how somebody...

Back in December 2023, I sprained my left thumb playing pick-up basketball at an Open Gym sponsored by a local church in our area. While defending a fellow Randolph-Macon College (RMC) alum, he rifled a pass across the court, and my left hand got in the way. I immediately felt the pain but figured my thumb was just jammed. Despite the pain, I continued playing, attempting to shake off the pain, literally. Whoever coined the phrase, “It’s all right, just shake it off,” clearl

Last week, I completed reading my second book of this early year . In 2019, I have set a personal goal to read a certain a number of books. The one I just finished reading is titled "The Bonsai Theory of Church Growth" by Ken Hemphill. I have known about this book for just about my entire life and have been meaning to read it . So, I finally did. The book takes the theories and practices of caring for bonsai trees and applies them to church growth. Admittedly, I completely mi