This morning was Vision Sunday at West Ridge Church. This is one of my favorite Sundays in the year, because we get to celebrate what happened in the last year and I get to talk to the church about where we believe God is leading us in the new year. The following is a brief [...]

Several years ago, we started singing a chorus at West Ridge called Grace Flows Down. It’s one of my favorites. It was recorded by Christie Nockels on the Passion One Day Live album. It’s a very simple tune, but the lyrics are extremely powerful. Amazing grace, How sweet the sound Amazing love, Now flowing down [...]

It seems like the older I get, the more I have these mornings where I wake up at 4 or 5 AM and my mind is racing. Usually, I can’t go back to sleep. Sometimes, I will lay there and try to sort out the 10 million things that are racing through my mind. Of [...]

A few weeks ago, I decided to share the “checkpoints” that I use to gage whether my personal and professional life is staying on track. There are seven of them and they all start with H. Checkpoint #1 – Humility Checkpoint #2 – Home I am writing this on an airplane coming back from Burkina [...]

Last week I decided to share on this blog the checkpoints that I use to gage whether my personal and professional life is staying on track. Checkpoint #1 – Humility Checkpoint #2 – Home About eight years ago, God gave me the opportunity to become friends with Andy Stanley. Besides being a phenomenal speaker, God [...]

Several years ago, I had a mentor of my hand me four words. He told me that for years he had used these words as daily checkpoints to make sure that his life was on track. I grabbed hold of these words and over time added three more words to my list. I refer to [...]

Amy and I try as hard as we can to be creative with our “family time” in the evenings. Sometimes it can be a real challenge. However, tonight I decided to pull out an old school favorite song of mine from a group called 4HIM. These guys have great voices and their songs were huge [...]

When I was a student at Liberty University (back in the 80′s), Jerry Falwell used to talk quite a bit about a book that really impacted him, ”My Utmost For His Highest,” by Oswald Chambers.  Listening to Him talk about that book and how it impacted his life made me want to read it.  So, I saved up [...]