Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

It’s this time of year when I look back over my learning log to see what I’ve achieved during the last 12 months. In summary it’s probably more than most people, but a bit less than I should have. Here are a few aspects from the last year that really stuck out. Work I continued at Musselburgh ...

  With the beautiful weather we’ve been having lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the river. We are so blessed in the Northwest to have several awesome rivers really close, and when it’s hot I am happy to enjoy them all I can. Have you ever seen a beautiful river that has slowe...

On the horizon is a big time opportunity. March 23rd is coming quickly and that is a big day in the lives of churches, because it can be such a big day in the lives of people.  March 23rd is Easter!  This is a great opportunity to be very, very intentional about inviting friends and family to chur...

I was just reading an article today about how itunes is now the no. 2 music distributor in the U.S.  This means that 50 million people are buy songs that, in their current form, cannot be played on most listening devices.  CD’s are becoming obsolete!  There I said it, we can all now go cry ...

I went out with a good friend of many years the other day and we got to talking and he asked me how the “worship team” was at CKC. I, because I can, gave him a really hard time for using the term “team.” I asked him when he had ever heard the word “team” in refere...