Today is the first practice for the Lee County Home School Lady Ambassadors varsity and jr. varsity basketball teams. It will be my 15th season of coaching them. I have written elsewhere about how I got involved as a volunteer coach for girls’ basketball. It’s a rather comical story…
Our family just finished hosting our first neighborhood block party. We grilled hamburgers and hotdogs and provided lemonade and water for drinks. All-in-all it was a great success. We have lived in our house for 11 years and though we have met and known some of our neighbors over…
This morning I had the privilege of preaching for the chapel service of Reformation Bible College in Sanford, Florida. RBC was founded in 2011 by R.C. Sproul and is committed to teaching Scripture in accordance with “the historic Christian faith and moral vision.” I was impressed with both the…
My sabbatical time away was not all work and study. I did give a great deal of time to the focused agenda I mentioned in earlier posts, but I also spent a great deal of time in a car with parts of my immediate family and visiting with extended…
One of the main objectives of my recent sabbatical leave was to start working on a project with my friend and fellow pastor, Shawn Bergen. Shawn and I crossed paths five years ago when he served on staff of a church in our area. Within a year, through some…
Yesterday I reentered the world of my regular responsibilities as a pastor and began a short series of sermons to reset our church priorities for the next phase of our life together as the people of Grace. It was good to back with my church family. I was grateful…
August 1 I loaded my 2001 Excursion with my wife, five daughters and granddaughter and headed to Texas for a month-long Sabbatical. My son and sons-in-law are maintaining the home fires until various members of our traveling party return intermittently over the next week or so. Being in Texas,…
For the last several years the church that I have served since 1986 has provided a month’s Sabbatical leave every year. There have been years that I’ve not been in the position to take advantage of this gracious provision and a couple where the Sabbatical had to be cut…
If you know my family at all you know that I am “Exhibit A” of God’s lavish grace. The fact that I out-married myself was evident long before the vows were exchanged. I still am amazed at God’s goodness to me in giving me Donna as my wife. My…
Five years ago yesterday I was struck by lightning. It is a crazy story that from the vantage point of increasing time and distance seems almost like make-believe (you can read a little about the immediate aftermath here and here). If it was surreal then, it is more so…