Encouraging Extraordinary!

  After some particularly rough years in ministry as pastor of a church in Nashville, I had determined to resign my position. The church had...

  Need a hand? When I was a young boy, my parents took my sister and me to the amusement park. It was usually the one set up at the Tennesse...

Whittled Walking Cane from this Story   In my early tween-aged years I learned to whittle. True whittlers can make such thin slices of wood ...

Driskill Hotel: photo cred. The Knot (not the couple mentioned in this story)   As a pastor, I have had the tremendous honor of performing a...

  As a young man, I may not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to fireworks. I loved lighting the tiny little fuse and...

Credit: Britannica   When I was in Middle School, my father bought a mini-farm. It was a plot of about 7 acres on the Little River just outs...

  As a seminary student, I volunteered and interned in the student ministry at a local church. One mission trip took about 100 students and ...