Every culture carries its music in its mouth. Bostonians drop their r’s. New Yorkers turn conversations into percussion. Canadians lift their sentences into gentle questions. Southerners stretch their vowels like warm taffy. Where I was raised, we joked that our vowels never quite left the back roads. Before you knew our story, you could hear …
Continue reading Shibboleth and the Church: How Small Differences Create Big Divides
Transitions test us. They stretch our faith, unsettle our routines, and remind us who is really leading the way. Today is my last day serving full-time at Pensacola Christian College. For six years, God allowed me to walk a path I had never imagined. Tomorrow begins a new chapter as I step into full-time pastoring …
Continue reading Lessons Learned in the Season of Transition
Not long ago, archaeologists brushed the dust from an Egyptian tomb, sealed before Moses ever raised his staff over the Red Sea. Inside lay the treasures of a vanished world—ornaments, vessels, fragments of power. But among them was something astonishing: jars of honey. Honey, resting in the dark for more than three thousand years, still …
Continue reading Sweeter Than Honey: What the Bible Says About God’s Enduring Word
Wednesday night Bible study was supposed to be uneventful—read the Word, sip coffee, share prayer requests, and head home with our halos only slightly crooked. But God has a way of sending curveballs in the shape of nine-year-old boys. He came striding toward me—small frame, serious face, hand outstretched like he’d just been elected chairman …
A Good Word 