Month: November 2020

A modified excerpt from a recent message to our student ministry. In Luke chapter 15 we see Jesus eating with sinners and tax collectors. This not only makes the Pharisees and scribes uncomfortable, it angers them. Jesus responds to them by telling some stories. One of these stories is the familiar parable of the prodigal …

As a leader, I see the value and importance in not only having vision, but also in having a clear vision statement for the ministry I have been called to lead. One of the first things I did when I began leading the student ministry at First Baptist Watauga was to combine the heart and …

Spending his final days being cared for in a center across from Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK, Bill F. Weir passed away on Thursday, November 5th, 2020. Bill was my wife’s grandpa and ‘Grandpa’ is exactly what we knew him as.  My mom’s father passed away when I was very young and my dad’s …

FEAR I have a fear of flying. It isn’t even a logical fear. I’ve flown multiple times in my life, the first time being during the summer between my second and third grade years when my family flew to Europe to stay several weeks in both England and France. My fears do not come from …