This past Friday, my good friend Liz and I ventured up to Pittsburgh to see my first musical idol, and the one musician of whom I have been a fan for the past twenty-five years: Billy Joel. So, when ThrowBack Thursday rolled around again, I felt myself being overly nostalgic about the music that has... Continue Reading →
It's amazing how we can experience something so life-changing, and then fall back into our regular routines so quickly again. Sometimes in my sermons I comment on the large number of people who stood in amazement of Jesus at one his public preaching moments... but then went home and went back to their lives and... Continue Reading →
Had you told that twelve-year-old version of me that I would one day be standing, jaw hanging agape, in the middle of Red Square, I would have laughed you out of town. Me? In Red Square? But it happened. We clambered out of the bus and followed Yelena through a pedestrian underpass... and as I... Continue Reading →
I've never left the country before. I had never even made it across the border to Canada or Mexico. So, naturally, the question was posed, "Why Russia?" I guess it does seem a strange destination for a person's first venture outside of her national boundaries. Maybe a trip down to Cancun, or up to Nova... Continue Reading →
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