My Brother, The Thief

The Fun of Being a Preacher There are times when preaching is hard. Sermon preparation isn't always easy; sometimes a message just fal...

Reflecting Back on 2010 I honestly haven't talked to anyone who told me that they would miss 2010.  Many of my friends really struggled...

The Waiting Game Anyone who has had a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) knows the waiting game.  The first question is always...

How Far I've Come Today I would call this "overdressing" A few years ago, I trained for a spring race, and I mostly train...

Whatever You Do For the Least of These... It started with someone getting a little crazy.  There was a sale, and they thought, "We sh...

Could This Be the One? Or... Wait and See Even before we were married, Tara and I talked about adoption.  Our eventual wish was to adopt c...

Power Outage! Have you ever had a power outage?   What a reminder of how much we rely on electricity!  Yesterday, just into our 11:00 churc...

Christmas Parade Millersport puts on a nice Christmas parade, but wow, Gatlinburg's Christmas parade was something else.  We headed do...

Just What the Doctor Ordered After a long several months with four kids and quite a bit of personal stress, our family got to take a vacati...

Latest Adventure I didn't post much about our most recent adventure in foster parenting because I didn't think it would be prudent;...

Remembering A year and a half ago, I got word that my friend Chad Max Miller and his brother Chris had died in a kayak accident.  His deat...

After the Columbus Marathon: Some Thoughts Two Days Later I loved the corral system.  It was so helpful to not have to dig my way through w...

Columbus Marathon Race Report, take 2. Back in October, 2006, I ran my first marathon , the Columbus Marathon . My goal was to finish, wh...

Throwing a Taper Tantrum Through the past 16 weeks, I have been in marathon training mode. That meant pushing my distance up - I put in fou...

I wonder what the top 25 most played songs on my iPod say about me... Here they are: 25: Rain in the Summertime: the Alarm 24: Hot for Teach...

Why Do I Run? I love my running time.  I love starting my day before dawn, seeing the light of the sun shining like Prevenient Grace, comin...

Better Than Winning My Age Group I think I've won my age group twice. I really only remember once. It was in a winter 5K cross country ...

Hard God never told us life would be easy.  In fact, Jesus said, "In this world you will have trouble." (John 16:33b) But The LO...

Serving Others Back in January, in a sermon, I referenced a story Mike Yaconelli told in his book Dangerous Wonder . In this book, he told ...

Running With the Boy Ever since I can remember, I wanted to run.  My family would drive past the local middle school and would dream about...