It is within man’s sinful nature to believe we are better than those around us most of the time. We say, “What were you thinking!” and “I would have definitely done that differently.” I am guilty of this all of the time. But, as we have been studying through Romans 8 at Aletheia over the past 4 [...]
Because I have literally been in ministry now for 33 years (my entire life in case you are wondering), I have been able to see the best and the worst of the “special music” time at church, traditionally known as the offertory, although not exclusive to just the offertory. I have many stories that all [...]
My 4 year old has a huge crush on Star Wars even though he’s never seen the movie. It’s really funny. Even funnier is the fact that he has now influenced his 21 month old brother to love Star Wars as well. Ashlee went out the other day and wanted to bring Drew home a [...]
There is something that I have been wanting to do for quite sometime now; Something that has been long overdue. I just want to take a few moments and publicly honor the worship band at Aletheia Tampa. You see, God has really blessed this church with an amazing group of godly men who love and [...]
As I was preparing to write my blog today, I noticed that this is my 200th post. I started this blog in June of 2007 and even though I have taken long seasons off from writing anything, my hope is that I have used it as a means to communicate what’s going on [...]
I can’t explain how much fun it is to see my boys growing up. They are a couple of crazy kids who are full of life and who really live for the moment. Ashlee and I are so blessed to see these little gifts develop (especially their personalities – they are both so different from [...]
Saturdays are big days for Aletheia Church here in Tampa, because we always do some type of missional outreach, usually in the form of specific, intentional evangelism. This precedent was started 10 years ago, when we started the first Aletheia Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Over the past decade, we have sparked up gospel conversations with [...]
It was great to be back at Aletheia (Tampa) this past Sunday. Ashlee and I were out of town the previous two weekends for her brother’s wedding as well as the 10 year anniversary of the first Aletheia Church in Harrisonburg, Va. I missed my church family in Tampa and being able to worship [...]
As a parent, there are a lot of those little things that I treasure with my rapidly growing-up boys. One of those little things that I know I will miss when they’re all grown up is taking naps with my little men. One day, I was watching Asher while doing work in my home office. [...]
In 1992, my father, who had started a church and had been at that same church for 16 and a half years, left the church after some incredibly painful events and false accusations. That was an interesting time for our family and ended up putting us on the streets, eventually landing us on the side [...]