Encouraging Extraordinary!

   Photo: cordelegeorgia.blogspot.com As a young student pastor in my first church after seminary, I was excited to take my students on a mi...

I had played tennis several times a week in Middle School at the asphalt courts owned by the church next to my home and loved it. I was hope...

Photo: Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek Mrs. Blackburn made the most delicious skillet popcorn, salted and buttered just right, serve...

  On safari in Africa, our friend, who had been in the Rhodesian army, was our guide. My college friend and I had been invited to join him a...

  As a kid, my sister and I  used to get excited to go to the playground. We had a few favorites that had forts to climb in and tunnels to r...

Tall Eastern White Pines bordered the property between my preteen home and the neighborhood church.  One of the tree’s low branches invited ...

Photo: Carrie Borden After my freshman year in high school, I had the wonderful privilege of going with my choir to Europe. Yes, you read th...