I was just a kid really. At thirteen years of age, I was not wise or experienced. I had not been formally trained. Like all teenagers, I had my struggles. I was not a likely candidate, but I was willing, and I did care about people. So, my pastor arranged for me to begin assisting in the Sunday School class primary children.  For the

It was the most memorable and expensive gift I have ever received in my life. The only gift that could possibly top it would be God’s gift of eternal life. Ironically it was also one of the few gifts I have ever requested. It was such a big ask that it took months for me to work up the nerve to ask. Although my

The air was crisp with the promise of snow in the sleek open-air stadium. Eighty thousand fans had journeyed from all over the world, paying healthy sums to get the real-time experience of a Super Bowl. Team jerseys, number one foam hands, loaded chili dogs and cotton candy stirred nostalgia and jump-started the adrenalin in these devoted football lovers. The much-anticipated kick-off put the

I can’t count the number of times I stood in the rubble of my half-finished renovation, discouraged at what my latest gut-job was revealing. It had always been a dream of mine to remodel an old house. Now I had that opportunity. I was remodeling a house built around 1790; it was a project that would last eight years.  In one of the early