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Change That Transforms
What does it mean to change? I don’t just mean surface level change here, but to really see deep transformation, to walk away at least slightly different than we were? This morning as I sat with my coffee and devotion book, I opened my Bible to Genesis 32. Genesis 32…
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Crammed Cars and Passing Seasons
Yesterday, following a meeting downtown, I decided to make the short trek across campus to the East Carolina student center to check our organization’s mailbox. As I walked, regretting every minute that I was wearing long pants and sleeves in almost 90 degree weather, something caught my eye. Students with…
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Don’t Dismiss Me Because I’m A Millennial
I must admit, I’m fascinated by all the blog posts and thoughts that are popping up on Millennials. The Millennial Generation is the one of which I am a part and is the one, for now, that the college students I work with live in. Many of those articles, blog…
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? Finding Hope in the Darkness.
As a kid I was deathly afraid of the dark. Whenever I could I would leave my light on as I fell asleep. If I couldn’t get away with it, I would pull my covers tightly over my head to create a cocoon of safety. Before heading to bed I…
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My New Year’s Resolution: Love, No Exceptions.
A few years ago I sat with one of the students from our college ministry and talked about life and what the world needs from Christians and the Church. He sat and thought for a few minutes and responded: “we, as Christians, really need to just love.” He paused for…
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Dropping Some Pounds: My 2013 New Year’s Resolution to Lose Weight
I’ve mainly kept this part of my year a secret. Every day I spent working on this resolution, was a day spent thinking I would never reach my goal and would revert back to where I began. This is why you (my Facebook) friends have not seen much about this…
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Eight Aspects of my “Family” I am Thankful for This Christmas
Laughter, good conversation, encouragement, presents, presence, and love- all good attributes of what I’m thankful for when it comes to family during the Christmas season. It is no accident, though, that I put family in quotation marks in the title of this post. For me, this Christmas, family goes beyond…
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Don’t Rush the Ticking
Tick. tock. tick. tock… In most of the rooms in our apartment (and in my office at the church) are “old school” clocks that tick and tock with each passing second. Sometimes I find myself so busy with whatever task I’m working on that I don’t even notice the faint…
