Encouraging Extraordinary!

  Every Easter at the home of my adolescence, my Mother would host the family Easter gathering after church. There was usually ham, sweet po...

When I was a young Baptist kid, I only knew of two days of the Holy Week, Palm Sunday and Easter. One involved Palm Branches and a Hosanna s...

  When things don’t go our way… In elementary school, I participated in Royal Ambassador basketball. “Royal Ambassadors,” or “RAs,” was a B...

Why are we still here? I sometimes wonder how kids survive ‘til adulthood. I had gotten an archery set for a birthday in elementary school,...

Who has the keys? In my tweenage years in the Summers, I was outside playing most of the time, playing pickup football, basketball, stickbal...

  Parents, Who is speaking for you? After college, I had the opportunity to travel to South Africa for a month with a college friend. The ...

  What do you do with your strength? As a kid, I looked forward to getting up on Saturday mornings and watching cartoons in my pajamas on t...