We’re in rural Georgia today with a bunch of students from a Christian school. Early this morning as we were loading in gear I walked right through a giant spider web. It was thick as thread and stretched out between three different trees. People always talk about how beautiful spider webs are but the dude [...]

My friend Jacob posed an interesting question Saturday. Who’s the better athlete, Michael Phelps or Michael Jordan? Like most of us, I have an Olympic fever of 102 degrees. I have loved watching Phelps pull speed from deep inside. I held my breath while Dara Torres pulled and scraped across the pool. I laughed out [...]

It was about 2AM when the real conversation started. Not my favorite time to be awake. I’m more of a 2 PM guy. Sometimes it just takes a while to wade through all the shallow water and get to a place of rich deep truth.
I was sharing a room with our drummer on this trip [...]

The earth shook today. I was definitely rattled both emotionally and spiritually today but I mean the earth ACTUALLY SHOOK. My first earthquake. A 6.0 aftershock in Western China.
I finished singing at a little college in the mountains of Western China and have driven back into the bustling city of Chengdu. With a few moments [...]

I did something crazy today. A few weeks ago I saw a posting in the local paper for extras casting in the film, Billy: The Early Years. It’s a film about the beginning of Billy Graham’s career as an evangelist. I sent in a picture and they called me in to be a “stagehand” in [...]

I stayed in bed until 10 AM this morning. I had some breakfast at 11:30. I know it has always been a running joke about musicians that we’re lazy and spend all day in bed. Most of the time it’s just not true but today I played the stereotype for all it’s worth. Most of [...]

I really love being on the road. Mainly because of all the cool people I get to meet along the way. I get to experience some rare gifts as well. Last weekend I was sitting on a pier at 1 AM in Key Largo, FL listening to some aquatic mammals swimming around just out of [...]