Crafting Good Questions
One of the things I most enjoy, and sadly seem to run out of time for, is blog reading. Among many of the benefits of the internet is the opportunity to learn from and engage with many others, across several disciplines, for the purpose of mutual edification, promoting of understanding and sheer fun. Regardless of […]
Book Review: Missional Preaching (part 1)
This post is part 1 of a two part review of Al Tizon’s book entitled Missional Preaching. Being someone who cares deeply, not only for the Missional conversation, but also for the necessity of Biblical preaching, I was uniquely interested when my good friend and mentor Brad Brisco asked me to read and respond to […]
Regular Hospitality
My good friend and mentor Brad Brisco, along with his wife Mischelle and their two boys have spent the last year 
providing foster care in our community. During that time they have housed over 40 different kids and in this post he shares a little bit about what he and his family have experienced and learned. Just a taste…
I can’t fully articulate how we have been blessed over the past year. That is the funny thing about biblical hospitality, just when you think it is about welcoming the stranger, for their benefit, you realize that it is you who is being blessed by the presence of the “stranger.”
My first reaction when reading Brad’s account is how absolutely radical this is! Yet upon further review, Hospitality of this kind should be the most normal action of the follower of Jesus. Instead of this hospitality being radical for us, it should be regular.
As Jessica and I consider adoption in the future as part of God’s plan for our family, I encourage you to join me in prayerfully considering how God is calling you to look after the orphans and widows in your community.
In the Woods
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this-two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
Enjoying the beginning of In the Woods by Tana French. If you dig P.D. James, I recommend you dive in.