My sister in law wrote this on my wife’s facebook wall last week: “Walked past your (old) house today… your beautiful garden is a mess… felt so sad… was tempted to uproot your hydrangeas and move them to my house.” She knows how much work was put into that garden. When we bought that house, [...]

This past week, I was invited to share about my church planting journey to the deacons, elders, and pastors at NPC. Although The Redemption Church hasn’t even reached its pubescent stage, it was my pleasure boasting about what God has done so far and how the church plant came about. I wanted to share part [...]

Today, I drove down to the U of I campus and sat in on the leaders’ retreat at the church I served at for eleven years and attended as a university student for five. As we went into prayer time, it brought back a bunch of memories. You see, I almost died in college … of [...]

My boys are into The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which apparently has been made into a movie. My 7yo grabs it every time we have “reading time” at home. My 5yo likes it because he thinks it’s The Diarrhea of a Wimpy Kid. He always flashes a mischievous smile when he looks at the [...]

I’ve been meaning to write something since returning home from J-Gen. I’ve attended J-Gen since its inception when it went under a more plain title of “Chicago Youth Retreat”. Now eleven years and hundreds of people later it’s become a movement of sorts, offering not only the killer retreat in August, but leadership training, gatherings [...]

I took my elderly mother to the hospital yesterday. She needed some help with translating documents, etc. At registration, a nurse asked for her insurance card. She had forgotten her glasses so I fished through her wallet for her. That’s when I saw it. A photo of my brother and I … when we were [...]

It was one of those moments that define who mom and dad are. On a lazy Sunday afternoon, one of my boys snuggled up to my wife, stared into her face all doe-eyed and said, “Mommy, you smell like flowers.” This inspired me to ask, “What does Dad smell like?” “Daddy, you smell like… meat.” [...]