I was just sitting here doing some writing and a thought came to my mind. How do you define “Happy New Year?” For the past couple of days I’ve been telling just about everyone I run into at Panera, at the mall, and on the street to have a “Happy New Year.”  But now that [...]

I think one of my favorite seasons on Without Wax last year was the 28 day challenge we did leading up to Easter where hundreds of you joined me in reading through the book of Matthew. With that in mind I want to extend an invitation for you guys to join me for the 31 [...]

I know some people are “anti” New Year’s resolutions.  However, I think this is an exciting time of year to set goals and establish new perspectives. As a matter of fact this blog is a result of one of my New Year’s resolutions from two years ago. My New Year’s resolution this year is more [...]

One of my favorite things about the holidays is the down time with family. We’re back in Nashville now, but the couple days we spent in Kentucky with Brandi’s family was great. No agenda. No to do list. No email. In fact, on Saturday I told Brandi let’s just get in the car and drive. [...]

If there is such a thing as a “perfect” Christmas this year would probably be it. After 7 amazing Christmas Eve services we’ve spent the past couple of days just hanging out and enjoying some great quality time with each other. We spent Christmas morning at home and took off around lunch to spend a [...]

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate each one of you who regularly visits this blog. Over the past two years you guys have become an important part of our family. I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas and get to spend tons of time with friends and family! Love you all!!! Here’s [...]

Somehow, for years, my hair has been made fun on in one way or another. I’ll readily admit that some of my hair styles have been a bit our there and worthy of discussion and criticism.  Most notably was the cut I had for about 3 months in 1995, years before I would sport “The [...]

Time magazine published an article online last week entitled “Going to Church on Christmas: A Vanishing Tradition.” In my opinion the article tried to say that churches have “sold out” because we offer fewer Christmas Day services and tend to favor Christmas Eve services. They wrote… While demand for Christmas Eve celebrations is so high [...]

Like many of you I’ve been unable to escape the constant media attention given to the Tiger Woods scandal. Does it seem ironic to anyone else that the media is giving Tiger such a hard time for living out the lifestyle they portray on almost every single television show they air? But to be honest, [...]

My prayer 7 years ago when we launched  Cross Point Church was that our church would make a real difference in its community. I prayed we would care just as much about what’s going on outside our four walls as within. Early Monday morning there was a horrible fire here in Nashville which destroyed several [...]