by Greg | Jul 19, 2011 | Archive
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is without a doubt one of the best reads of the summer. I couldn’t put this one down! Hillenbrand recounts the TRUE story of Louie Zamperini–I capitalize TRUE because it is almost beyond belief. Zamperini was a U.S. Olympic...
by Greg | Jul 11, 2011 | Archive
In a nutshell, “Hell no? Hell yes?” pretty much summarizes Rob Bell’s book Love Wins and Francis Chan’s Erasing Hell. I read Love Wins by Rob Bell a couple of months ago. After reading it I felt more compelled to tell people about Jesus. Even...
by Greg | Jul 3, 2011 | Archive
Julie and I just put our house on the market. And just for clarification, we love living here! We live at the top of a wooded hill on 3.2 acres in a very “pastoral” setting (pun intended). Jackson Local is a great school system and we have MANY friends in the...
by Greg | May 24, 2011 | Archive
In one hour I’m heading to the airport. In one hour I’ll begin a monstrous 24 hours of travel to the Middle East. In one hour I will begin a pilgrimage that is designed to draw me and the 20 brothers who will be traveling with me closer to Jesus. About...
by Greg | May 10, 2011 | Archive
This past Saturday morning, my family joined about 30 others from our GoCommunity leadership training group in serving at Altercare of Noble’s Pond. So I confess . . . at 9:30 I said to Julie, “This is about the last thing I want to do.” I still...
by Greg | May 3, 2011 | Archive
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison was once asked why she had become a great writer . . . Was it the books she had read? Her discipline in writing? She laughed and said, “Oh, no, that is not why I am a great writer. I am a great writer because when I...