I’ll have to admit, my job was easier six years ago. Six years ago we had one campus and one location. I was responsible for a wonderful, though much smaller staff. I was preaching sermons, leading staff meetings, discipling, and doing a little bit of counseling.

Four clergymen were discussing Bible translations. One liked the King James Version best because of its beautiful classical English. Another liked the New American Standard because of its nearness to the original Hebrew and Greek. Another preferred the New Living Translation because of its up-to-date phraseology. The fourth replied…

When a pilot loses sense of the airplane’s attitude, disaster is imminent. That’s why we have an attitude indicator…

I have perfect pitch. I guess it’s pretty unusual. I learned when I was a kid that I could hum middle C without hearing it first. I later learned that’s perfect pitch. I just now tried it again, hummed what I thought was middle C, and then played the note online, and bingo, I had it exactly. I understand that even a lot of accomplished musicians and singers are not able to do that.

But when I was a kid…

Several years ago I had lunch with a young local business man and aspiring politician. He asked me, “What gets you up in the morning?” Meaning, what am I passionate about, what gets me excited?

“The resurrection of Jesus.”

Why do these things keep happening. Now it’s a Christian elementary school. Little 9 year-olds mercilessly gunned down!

Some point to the proliferation of guns. That argument can be made, though more households had guns in America when I was growing up than today, but there were no school shootings that I remember hearing about.