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There are certain moments conducive to particular conversations. Dinnertime conversations with the family are good environments to check on grades, friends, and upcoming events. End of the day pillow talk is a good time for Sherry and me to catch up on parenting woes and wins. As a waitress refills my coffee, there’s a moment when I can verbally check on her as well. My son-in-law picked a perfect time and place to ask for my daughter’s hand in marriage.…

Thanksgiving has come and gone. So has crazy cousin-in-law, Tom. You probably have one of these kin folk too. Tom is the guy who’s sports team are exactly opposite yours. Tom is the engrafted family member who beats everyone at trivia. Tom is the relative with personality and all the latest tech toys. This year, Tom was touting his new iphone 6+. Have you seen these monsters… the iphone 6+, that is? I’m fairly sure new pairs of Levi’s will…

Does God get butterflies? I’m not asking does God MAKE butterflies. Does He GET them? You know… those fluttery feelings connecting stomach with a palpitating heart. Some might call it “getting nervous.” Please don’t slam my theology to the ground for seemingly forgetting the omnipotence, omniscient, and omnipresent ways of the Almighty. But, as a loving, emotion-emitting Father — does God get butterflies? Last night my 13-year-old son, Michael, played in his middle school talent show. (CHECK IT OUT HERE!)…

  Do you remember the Super Bowl commercial of Amazon.com? It suggested how, sooner than later, many of our packages would be delivered to our front door by drones. Now my 16-year-old wants a drone video camera that can fly above the clouds and stream live video to her computer. Government officials are claiming this is illegal activity and should not be left to the common man… or teenager. 3-D printers are going beyond eye-popping images requiring goofy sunglasses to…

      Last Sunday, there was an exuberant, capacity crowd at the 9 a.m. service. We sang “set the church on fire” and “set us on fire” with great abandonment. By 9:30, the fire alarms were sounding and the Cobb Country fire trucks were en route. To make matters worse, as the auditorium was emptying, there was visible smoke coming from the ceiling just above the coffee dispensers. What in THE world? Back in the children’s areas, awesome volunteers…

On Tuesdays I get away from the office to read and think. I become immersed in reading and thinking attached to the upcoming Sunday message. I like to find hideaways close to coffee. A holy Tuesday morning would be lacking without a cup of holy brew. This past week I landed at the mall. Did you know you can get into the mall very early before any of the stores open and people invade. It’s quiet and peaceful. There are…

Over and over throughout scripture, God’s people are called to turn back to their Creator. Brokenness, selfishness, ambitions, Satan’s whispers… all work against us and push us away from the heart of God. Turning back to God is called repentance. It’s a literal 180. An about face. A U-turn. A teenage King Josiah helped turn the entire nation of Israel back to God (II Chronicles 34). Change begins on the heels of repentance. As a young kid, I remember week-long…

I didn’t calculate my soul beyond the wedding. If you don’t know, my first-born daughter got married last Saturday. This was my first run at giving away one of my precious girls. This whole process has been wild, fun, emotional, sad, exciting, exhilarating, and draining. It’s amazing the input and output of emotions a wedding demands. After the last out-of-town guests drove off late Sunday afternoon, I was ready to collapse. I had planned and worked and drove myself right…

Every year at about this time we turn off all the air conditioning and open up the windows to get that fresh breeze blowing through the house. And as the season shifts, we close the windows and turn on the heat – but, for some reason we still get that same breeze blowing through the cheap windows and cracks and poor seal job. So, I called Bank of America and asked them to fix my windows; they laughed at me.…

We’re waking up this morning to the news of JP Morgan Chase reporting another security breach of 76 million people. Recently Home Depot and Target admitted their databases had been hacked, and millions more became wobbly-kneed with security fears. Sherry and I cut our cable a while back to free up some extra cash. Simultaneously we picked up a new expense. Identity theft insurance. Current trends, risks, and fears drove our decision. An NBC cameraman has contracted Ebola. A man…