A Couple Christmas Stories from Taiwan During the Christmas of 1974, my dad recorded a Christmas cassette for our grandparents which included our thank you’s for their presents and our prayers for them. During the Christmas of 1975, I remember…
What CCM Means to Me, Part 3 Combining Two Loves into Songwriting So I was a pretty decent writer and a poet in school, and I was learning jazz improvisation in the school jazz band. Both of these are creative…
Are you “#too cool” for #Jesus? How do you know if you are, and how do you change it? How To Know Do you ever find yourself in #church suddenly wondering what is going on there, why you are even…
How is going to a new school when you’re ten-, eleven-, or fourteen-years old different from when you’re five- or eight-years old? How is it better, and how is it worse? In my previous post, I mentioned three things you…
What is your favorite style of music? Do you like whatever is most popular, or do you take a more contrarian approach? I tend to take a mix of those and don’t like to be pegged in any category. I…
Have you ever been proud of achieving something not many get to achieve only to be disappointed in what that achievement got you, at least at first? Maybe later you realized what a special time of your life you went…
*Warning: the following story really happened, and has been verified by more than one witness. I’m not making this up. I’m just trying to understand it, make sense of it, and realize how powerful Jesus is. More Than A Bad…
“I heard that you and your family spent some time in Taiwan as missionaries. Is that true?” I suspect that my face turned red. I hadn’t wanted anybody to know that, but there was no escaping the truth now. Have…
Sometimes girls can be so mean! Seriously, what did I do to deserve this treatment? I’m in 7th grade band playing trombone next to a couple of girls who play trombone. But we sit in the back row behind the…