I ran into a friend this week at the gym that I hadn’t seen in a while. She was explaining to me that she had recently broken her elbow in a biking accident. My first thought was,”I had no idea you could even break your elbow.”  I mean, really? Ouch. But then I thought, I [...]

There’s a game I play with my youngest son, Brewer, quite often. I’ll pretend not to be paying attention while sitting on the couch and then when he walks by me I’ll violently grab him by the arms and wrestle him to the ground. He dies laughing every time. Then I’ll get back up on [...]

  Yesterday afternoon my mom had all three of the kids and Brandi and I had an entire afternoon just to ourselves. While we’ll often go out at night without them it’s rare to be alone during the middle of the day.  At some point this prompted her to ask, “What in the world did [...]

There’s a phrase parents around the world constantly prompt their young offspring to say every time someone does something nice for them. This prompt usually comes in the form of the question, “What do you say?” “What do you say to Mr. James for giving you that popsiscle,” your mom would say to you. And [...]

Over the past year I’ve become a fan of Scot McKnight and his thoughts on following Christ. I don’t always agree with him, but he almost always makes me think outside of my little theology box. He recently wrote an article for Relevant Magazine entitled, “Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About Sin?” Here’s a little snippet [...]

While I’ve never been one to have long range vision (I generally have a hard time planning beyond a year) I’m starting to think the American church has got a lot of “planning” to do. I’ll be honest. Most of my pastor friends are pretty stinking white. Most of their churches are pretty white. It’s [...]

  You probably won’t be surprised by this, but a new study shows that we’re having a harder and harder time disconnecting. Even vacations are becoming workcations. Check these stats out… Seventy-nine percent of respondents have taken their work-related device with them on vacation. More than one-third of respondents admit to hiding from friends and [...]

This weekend I had the incredible opportunity of speaking at Harvest Church in Billings, Montana. Harvest is an amazing church that is making an incredible impact out here. They have four campuses with one in Cody, Wyoming. They’re in the process of raising money to build an olympic size pool that they’re actually going to [...]

Introducing my pal Chad Jarnagin.  Although I’m sure some of you know who he is.  Songwriter, worship leader, artist, creative ideologist.  Chad is the Worship Arts Pastor right here in Franklin, TN at Rolling Hills Community Church and I’m stoked to promote his new EP to you guys today.  You’ll definitely want to check it out [...]

Every year on vacation we have what we call “Wilson Surf Day.”  Now keep in mind none of us actually know how to surf but our boys have no idea. In fact, they think I have a gold medal in surfing. Yesterday, all three boys got up on the board and I’ve got the proof. [...]