Living Real

I can’t say I’m a deeply theological person. My faith is really quite simple. God said it. That’s it. It’s taken a lot of time for me to get to the place where I know what God actually says. That was kinda thwarted by a rocky start in the church of my youth, but I’ve [...]

Perhaps you’ve noticed I’ve been absent. Perhaps not. Call it writers block. Call it lazy. Call it whatever you wish, but I just haven’t been able to write over the past several weeks. Watch out world, that’s about to change. On May 24th, I had surgery on my right foot. I will share some stories [...]

Americans are such racists. By and large, all of us are.  Whether you’re black, white, red, yellow or whatever. We argue amongst ourselves about racial equality — primarily between black and white. It’s amazing, however, to see how those racial lines seem to disappear into a form of unity when our American race is challenged. [...]

I must make a confession. There’s a television show on A & E Television about people who hang on to items that they really can’t use, until it essentially chokes the life from their life. I am a hoarder. For years I’ve hoarded chips & dip, candy bars, too much steak & shrimp, and bread, [...]

The trip away was great. Had I not gone, I would have missed out. Today, I’ll share the briefest (yeah, right) of summaries, then through the week, I’ll unpack these with more detail. Wednesday, we took the long (really long) way from Townsend to Anderson. We stopped at Sticky Fingers in Chattanooga for lunch, then [...]

Several months ago I stumbled upon Jon Acuff. Not literally, I’ve only met him once, but I came across his blog and after wiping the tears spurred by laughter determined that this was one I’d keep check on. Jon is a very humble man, wise beyond his years, who uses satire and humor to point [...]

I got a text today from my pastor today telling me I was wearing my God-goggles. What a compliment! Sometime earlier this year, Darren came up with this term — yes, it was taken from the term used in a song by Neal McCoy about beer goggles. This term, though, has nothing to do with [...]

I shared about the spiritual armor Paul talked about in Ephesians 6:11-18 last night. I was talking to some of the women inmates at the Blount County jail. We had just nailed down that James 4:17 says, “Resist the devil and he will flee.” as being truth and real and would actually work (another story [...]

I was startled to hear all that’s gone on with Tiger Woods the past several days. My emotions have run the gamut of anger — at him, his wife, the media — to sorrow over the loss of so much for such temporary things. Today, I’m being challenged by those in the world of Twitter [...]

What does it mean to “hold someone accountable”? Last year at Catalyst ’08, I listened to Jud Wilhite and Mike Foster, authors of Deadly Viper Character Assassins talk about accountability. They talked about it being a matter of having the other’s back, not judging. What they talked about was as men traveling alone on trips for conventions and such — the [...]

Lots of talk in the “Christian” world about “being accountable” and “holding someone accountable.” I hear it a lot. Not sure I see it much though. I’ve seen it done differently and not done at all – even though it was supposed to be happening. I’ve had “accountability partners” before. Never heard from them.  Huh? Nope. Not once did I [...]

Wow. How much can you pack into one week? My brain is spinning! I left home Monday morning to drive to Little Rock, Arkansas to attend a conference about doing really great things for God’s Kingdom with the resources you have — regardless of how little or how much. I walked around the campus of [...]