I'm not too ashamed to admit that I do not do most of the cleaning in the house. I'm more of the maintenance guy. Listen, I try to do my part, and I'm never above helping when asked. Now that I've apologized for being a stereotypical male, I need to explain the real reason I do so little cleaning. Allie cleans better than me. And not just me. She probably cleans better than you.  Read More

Growing up we took at least one trip to our local theme park every year. We didn't have Disney, Universal, or Six Flags. We had Carowinds. It was called Carowinds because the winds of North and South Carolina blew through the park. You see, the park straddles the state lines of both North and South Carolina. This meant that half the rides were in South Carolina and half were in North Carolina. Being from South Carolina, we always swore that "our side" was better. Our side had Top Gun and Dale Earnhardt's Intimidator coasters (Could it get more South Carolinian than that?).  Read More

I was an award-winning art minor in college. To be fair, the art department was pretty small and I bribed my art professor (JUST KIDDING!). Artists are notoriously hard on their own work, but I was actually pretty happy with some of it. These days, I would not personally display my work, but despite my best efforts at discouraging it, my wife has littered our walls with them. If you ever come over for CG you can see it.  Read More

It's hard for me to believe my family has lived in Boston for over six years (The second longest place I have ever lived), and our church is five years old today! That's right, this church in Jamaica Plain began in the Curley K-8 auditorium five years ago.  Read More

We have entered the best season: Football season. You thought I was going to say fall, didn't you? Although statistically speaking, fall is America's favorite season, the correct answer is football season.  Read More

Serena Jameka Williams. The G.O.A.T. of women's tennis. She accomplished some amazing athletic feats in her 27-year career. She holds 23 Grand Slam singles titles. Which is the most for the "Open era." She has also won 4 Olympic gold medals in singles and doubles competitions. Williams was ranked number one by the WTA for a total of 319 weeks and is tied for the most number of consecutive weeks at...  Read More

Our family started watching Amazon's new Rings of Power show, which I'm enjoying. Don't listen to the haters. It's actually really good. Anyway, it got me thinking about my favorite movie ever: "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."I remember watching it for the first time, and even though it was almost three hours long I didn't want it to be over. It was that good. If you haven't se...  Read More

I did not have a lot of confidence growing up. I was one of the shyest, most awkward people ever. You need to understand where I was coming from. Out of my twelve years of school, eleven of them were all or partially homeschooled. So, when I went to a public school in my senior year of high school, I was embarrassingly shy.  Read More

We live in a world where we can customize everything. But can we customize God?  Read More

Allie was in tears on the other side of the phone, and I didn't know how to comfort her. She had just successfully birthed the most complicated baby she had ever carried. We had been in and out of the hospital most of the pregnancy, and for several weeks, Allie was all but bedridden and wheelchair bound. When the day finally came, he was three weeks early, and a little underweight. But he was healthy!  Read More

Right before he got up to preach, he said, "I don't feel well," grabbed my mom's shoulder, and collapsed to the ground. What started out as a normal Sunday changed our family forever.  Read More

"Your God is too small," a friend told me. He said that most of my problems in life could be chalked up to my small view of God. At first, I thought that was absurd. I was offended! My view of God wasn't too small! Yet, as I thought about it, he was right. God is so magnificently gargantuan that my finite mind had no chance of fully grasping his enormity. But my biggest problem wasn't my ability to wrap my mind around God. It was that I had shrunk him down to something manageable. Something like... me. He was just a little smarter and bigger.  Read More