Sally was gloriously converted to Christ. She began coming to church with her three young children and made immediate sweeping changes in...

Lilly’s coma lasted days, then weeks, and then months. Lilly was twenty-one, beautiful and full of life. And she was smart. She had been...

“I can’t lie – it was a great experience, and for one brief moment I was a hero.” Our high school basketball team had not played for the...

I was in a church a while back where there arose a discussion about the laxness of the dress code. A certain couple felt all the male...

It was the biggest black bear I had ever seen! I was trying to keep in shape for a mountain hiking expedition I would be doing in a few...

The man had a serious looking hunting knife strapped to his side. My first church was in the heart of metropolitan Los Angeles in a...

The story of my book Murder in the Church is by far the most unbelievable story I have ever encountered in the ministry or in life. In...

In past blogs I’ve communicated that about ten years ago I took time away from ministry for a year or so for a sabbatical. During this...

A few months later I was subpoenaed to court…. I have always had a problem. I seem to want to help people. If someone’s gas cap is...

(Taken from the book, BEAUTIFUL BEHAVIORS) For a year I worked for the YMCA while I was on a sabbatical from ministry. One of my tasks...

She believed her son was a victim of the Freeway Killer. The first church I pastored was in the Los Angeles area of Southern California....

When my oldest son was a child he began to stutter. It was the oddest thing. He stuttered for several weeks before I decided it was a...

“I don’t think any of us boys who went to the altar the week before, really meant it.  I do know that none of us lived it.” When I was...

My look at her turned from concern to terror. When I was six years old, my mother hung wallpaper in our town to try to gain some extra...

Tina screamed, “Jesus help us!” I was a youth minister in a church in Illinois early in my ministry. The youth group there went to summer...

I was shocked as I pondered what I had just seen. (This story is being told with permission) In one of the churches where I served as...

It was the biggest Rattle Snake I had ever seen! One year while we were pastoring in California, one of our church members presented us...

Of course, his name was Butch. Between the ages of seven and nine I lived in Tucson, Arizona with my parents. I had cousins that lived...

It didn’t move for several seconds, perhaps an entire minute. But when it did we were all terrified. When I was a teenager I would sleep...

The rest of our trip to our final destination was a quiet one…. When my sons were young our family lived in California and we were always...