After more than two decades of blindly earning and spending money, I met Becky. And she taught me about this magical thing called a “budget.” Becky’s an accountant by training and needs her spreadsheets and charts like I need air…or bacon. I’m not that into numbers. But I’m absolutely lost… Read More
Archive Tag: family
Three Ways To Balance Work & Family
In the last year I sang and spoke in 81 cities. I posted twice from overseas with a group of bloggers I assembled and herded led. I managed a team of worship leaders and other volunteers as our church transitioned from a cafeteria to a permanent home. I wrote at… Read More
When We’re Ready Because We’re Not
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9 “What does ‘Lord’ mean?” she asked. “Boss, king, master. When you become a Christian you’re saying you want Jesus to be the king… Read More
How I Met Becky
Becky and I are celebrating sixteen years of marriage this week, twenty-one years together. So, since I’m already doing a lot of reminiscing, how about I answer the question women ask me more than any other: How’d you and Becky meet? The first answer I always give is Hooters. But… Read More
Gotcha Day: A Cautionary Tale
Yesterday was Sambhaji’s “Gotcha Day.” It’s not the day we went to his orphanage in India and brought him home to Nashville – we never did that. Another mom and dad did. Two years ago we received a phone call from our social worker. A couple in our state had… Read More
Celebrating Lent As A Family: 40 Days Of Preparation
Forty days and nights of rain beating down on that noisy smelly ark. Forty years wandering in the wilderness between slavery in Egypt and freedom in the Promised Land. Forty days Moses spent on the mountain with God. The spies inspected the new land for forty days before bringing out… Read More