Yesterday I asked a group of high school students what they thought was the greatest song ever written. After they gave all their wrong answers, I shared the only correct response: “Miss American Pie” written by Don McLean. In...
Do people label you as a heretic, a troublemaker, a rebel, or a misfit? If so, you might be an outlier. Contrary to what people say, that can be a good thing. The word “outlier” comes from the world...
Ally. “…someone who helps and supports other people who are part of a group that is treated badly or unfairly, although they are not themselves a member of this group.” (Cambridge Online Dictionary) Pastor, have you come out...
A friendly conservation between me and two pastor friends got awkward when one of them asked, “What happened to you?” No one spoke. We all knew what was behind that question. As an ordained Nazarene pastor, I used to...
The Bible ain’t all that. There I said it out loud. But wait. There’s context. And the context is Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. I’m no expert in quantum physics or anything Einstein. Heck, I can’t even fake...