Unbroken

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...

Hell No? Hell Yes?

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...

Our house is on the market

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...

Spiritual pilgrimage

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...

Good for my soul

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...

Bright Eyes

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...