I didn’t know how many came to the first “Pray for Awakening” opportunity today. Honestly, I didn’t look...I was praying. I could not help b...

Oh how my heart longs for God to do something big. There have been a few times that I have seen him move unusually. I know that there are pl...

As I wrote in a previous post, I didn't have the best chili in the MANday Night Chili Cook-off (in my opinion). I tasted several guys...

Ok, so I ham it up every year with the other guys in order to stir up the competitive spirit in the MANday Night guys for the Chili cook-off...

There is often a big letdown after Christmas. Family members go home, messes must be cleaned, tree disposed of, and decorations taken down a...

I read an a great article this morning and I've been thinking about it since. It is about how all the traditional elements of Christmas ...

The Christmas story (not the movie, but the real account of Jesus’ birth) is quite a tale. Think about hearing it for the first time, as did...

Os Guinness has long been one of my favorite Christian thinkers. He recently spoke at the Lausanne Conference in South Africa, a monumental ...

Now that the election is over, we can feel a little less tension when talking about politics, right? The message Sunday was about Jesus’ cl...

Arick is a special member of our church. He is both physically and mentally handicapped. He probably loves Providence more than anyone and t...

Ok, it’s fall and football time, so suffer me a related thought or two. One of my favorite lines from the movie, Remember the Titans , is fr...

We all knew it would happen. Some fringe preacher wanting to be noticed was bound to come out and say something extreme that a willing media...

I was gone all last week, camping with my family in the Smokies. I had no email, texting, phone, TV, etc. It was GREAT! When gone for an ext...

Sorry. I know I said I was done. Just found a few more pics of our last couple of days on Nevis and had to share them! So this picture is li...

Well, we've been back in Knoxville less than a week and life is crazy busy once again. Ok...I've been told we've made people mad...

There is no way to describe it. God is good to us. Our trip just seems to go from great to even greater. Thanks to all of you who have wishe...