Category Archives: Just For Fun

What the American Church Can Learn From the African Church

I was shooting a promo video for Yaaka Afrika, standing in the jungle of Uganda when I was asked the question, ‘what, if anything, can the American church learn from the African church?’  The tone in Nathan’s voice was respectful and seemed to indicate that he was entirely okay with the answer, ‘nothing.’  But, obviously…
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Connecting With Your Kids: 5 Ideas

Parents..... we chose to have children so that we could be with them, to have quality relationships and pour out our love and care. Yet, how soon we forget. After too many whiny car rides, exhaustion meltdowns and doses of teen angst, many of our day dreams involve getting away for alone time. But when…
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Great Santa Debate

Early the first year that Suzi and I were married, back in 1995, Christmas rolled around and it was the first time that we had the “Great Santa Debate”. Suzi grew up with the idea of Santa and all the magical thoughts of elves and mysterious presents, and trying to catch Santa every year in…
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Pay It Forward- A Defining Christmas Memory

Growing up in a single-parent home, we didn’t have a lot of money. I remember one year that my mom saved up to get all three of us kids electric blankets because we didn’t have the money to turn on the heat in the house. We had one of those old kerosene heaters in the…
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