I’m teaching our How to Grow LifeLab this Wednesday night at Calvary Church. It’s all about wilderness experiences in the sense of spiritual dryness. I think it will be really helpful for people. It’s so easy to give up or get depressed when we don’t “feel God.” What has been helpful for you when you [...]

We just finished our Parables series and Tammy Harris and Tim Gold made an awesome recap video of the whole series. I was bummed to miss it in the service last Sunday but loved seeing it finally yesterday. I think it is so helpful for myself and the people of Calvary Church to be reminded [...]

John Townsend spoke at Calvary Church yesterday at a Pastors Forum sponsored by CIFT. CIFT is the Center for Individual and Family Therapy. We pretty much exclusively refer people to them that have needs beyond our own Calvary Life Counseling Center. So anyways, John Townsend of Boundaries fame spoke to a group of pastors and [...]

BELOW IS A POST FROM TIM STEVENS’ BLOG. Tim was at the Q Conference which seems like a pretty cool, “edgy” conference. A couple friends of mine are there and yes, I’m a little bitter. The conference had an interview with Ted and Gayle Haggard that was initially not allowed to be public but they [...]

Oh summer, I love you. I can’t wait until you are here. One more week and you will be with me. Waking up at 5:00am every day will be gone for your season. My wife, kids and I will enjoy mornings together without stress and hurry. Oh summer, I love you. Come quickly.

We just got back today from a great week in Hawaii. I highly encourage you to go to Bea’s Blog for some awesome photos. My highlights: 1. Thurston Lava Tube hike – this was an amazing short hike through some of the coolest rainforest I have ever seen and then you walk through a long tunnel that [...]

These are Bea’s Top 10 stupid things that her students have written in papers over the year. It’s hilarious and a little sad. Enjoy. 10. The age of disco was risky.  The drugs and sex made people make poor choices in fashion as well as lifestyles. 9. Nuclear weapons cannot be enlightened economically. (the student did not [...]

Kris Allen Singing “God Of This City” {American Idol} from Rick Smith on Vimeo. I don’t know much about this, but Jason Loftis sent me this. You may know this already, but Kris Allen is part of New Life Church in Little Rock. Apparently, he is an occasional worship leader at the church’s Conway campus. [...]

I just read John 11-14 and I was moved by it. Then a little while later I thought I would blog some about it. I kept looking for bits and pieces that could be an encouragement to you as you read this post. But then I kept seeing how that bit or piece by itself [...]

I’ve heard some buzz about this lately from friends and even speakers at conferences, but it’s the question of whether FaceBook is good or evil (Twitter is a whole other question). A friend had to cancel their FB account because of some major family conflict and needed to go off the grid. That made people ask [...]