May 23, 2008

I trust that this past weekend’s Marriage Conference was a wonderful time of renewal and encouragement for your marriages as it was for ours. If you weren’t able to make it, or missed some of the sessions, you can find them on our website soon. ...

March 7, 2008

This past Monday (March 3rd), Elizabeth and I celebrated our seventh anniversary. I don’t want to embarrass her, so I won’t write too much, but my sweet Elizabeth has been one of the brightest tokens of God’s goodness and faithfulness to me in all my ...

March 21, 2008

Elizabeth and I had a wonderful trip to the Chicago area this past weekend. We enjoyed getting to see members of my family whom we rarely see, but one of the best parts of our vacation was getting to sleep in a couple mornings ...

May 2, 2008

A tranquil and quiet life. In our world of 24- hour newscasts, the inescapable cell phone, and “You’ve Got Mail,” tranquility and quietness is not in great supply – nor is it, unfortunately, in great demand. But for the Christian, life should be characterized by ...

April 18, 2008

One of the things for which I often give thanks is the fact that God has blessed us with more people in worship on the Lord’s Day than are on our membership rolls. We just finished another Inquirers’ Class, and several of our regular ...

April 4, 2008

John Stott wrote this (with apologies to Martin Luther King) in a sermon on November 24, 1974, in celebration of his church’s 150th anniversary. His dreams should be those of every church: “I have a dream of a church which is a biblical church – ...

February 22, 2008

This past Saturday morning I was playing basketball at the new Cane Creek Gym (an incredible facility, by the way), and got into a conversation with one of my teammates. His name was Ryan Barnhart, and it turned out that he was ...

February 8, 2008

I write this on Tuesday night, having enjoyed a night of election returns. I must admit, I enjoy the Presidential political process as much as the college football season. We are leaving tomorrow morning to travel to Conway, Arkansas, just outside of ...

January 25, 2008

Many people leave home to attend college; I had the strange experience of home leaving me. The fall of my freshman year at LSU, my mom and her new husband moved from Baton Rouge to Mandeville, Louisiana. The fall of my sophomore ...