Hojo I can’t Sleep
This story is about a friend of Hojo who experiences a horrible loss of his twenty-two year old son to a suicide. Tom questions his faith and reaches out to Hojo.
Going Home to Asbury
I came home May 2nd, home to Asbury University for the commencement activities. I came home for the last time - perhaps. Home to Hughes Auditorium, where I have heard so many great chapel messages and saw so many lives changed – mine among them, because of those messages. This is a posting about Graduation 2026.
An Unexpected Journey
This story happened seven years ago, and as I recall, it was quite apparent that it was not the time to make a major life change. In fact, I really have no idea if it will ever happen at this point. But the thing I have learned, as the years have gone by, is that there does not always need to be a physical change to bring contentment and peace. I believe more often it is a heart change that brings contentment ... an attitude adjustment ... and an acceptance of what is, rather than what we wish it could be.
Five Smooth Stones
What was going through David's mind when he was getting ready to fight Goliath? Why did he take five smooth stones? This imaginative retelling of the moments before that famous fight attempts to answer those questions and calls each of us to consider whether we are ready and willing to be used by God however He sees best.
Johnny Died Well
I can remember as a child my nightly prayer was this: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take. Frankly, that is a scary prayer my parents taught me to pray! There were some nights I did not want to go to sleep!