This is the last blog I’m writing from New Orleans. I have a few scheduled for the coming days because I’ll be trying to move things to Mobile then to Fort Worth, and I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to post. Today is one day shy of fulfilling my second full year...
If you’re willing to take a few minutes to pray for the students at Union University (website down as of this post) in Jackson, Tennessee, I’m sure they’ll appreciate it. There’s been a major tornado there, and it’s done a lot of damage. A lot of students are shaken up, and the campus is pretty...
Tonight I preached for the first time since February 2006, and it’s only one of a few opportunities since I left Mobile to come to seminary in 2004. For someone who had gotten use to being heard on a regular basis, to preach tonight was an incredible blessing- one I didn’t take for granted. Maybe...
Joe McKeever, the Director of Missions at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans (BAGNO), wrote a post on his blog a few weeks ago outlining the status of our local Baptist churches. He broke them down into three categories: struggling, flourishing but with issues, and normal. My church, Edgewater, fell under the...
Two years ago I packed up a few of my things and drove to my parents’ home in Mobile, Alabama. At the time, New Orleans had issued a voluntary evacuation; NOBTS issued a mandatory evacuation. Two days later, Hurricane Katrina pushed onshore as a category 3 hurricane. It was something I’d been...
