Have you ever noticed that the gap between people who actually know how to ice skate and those who don’t is enormous? I took this picture while getting in some family time at Ober Gatlinburg recently: Just because you lace up and get out there doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing. The skilled ones glide [...]
Continue Reading →Time was in short supply. For me, there never seemed to be enough time to do my work and serve my family the way the Bible teaches (the way that I want to). Week after week one or both of those things got shorted. And week after week, the guilt and the stress grew. But [...]
My older sister, Christal, is gold. Beautiful, fun, not an enemy in the world, and she loves Jesus with everything she’s got. Gold. She’s one of those perfect people…and not the kind you resent for being perfect, either. She’s so humble, that you’re actually glad that she’s got it all together. You know the type. [...]
I can’t stand that arcade game with the quarters that get pushed to the edge (but rarely off). I can almost feel the tension of those coins hovering over the edge waiting to fall, but somehow, against all odds, they manage to hang on. The game somehow defies the laws of physics, it spits in [...]
So, there are plenty of hack poets out there…ones who either can’t get past stating the obvious with a string of cliches or somehow can’t resist the temptation to rhyming ‘love’ and ‘dove.’ That’s me. I’m a hack poet. My dad, on the other hand, is legit. He recently wrote a poem for Sharon (my [...]
“Death Cab for Cutie” might be my favorite band. If you’re unfamiliar with then, the name probably paints the wrong picture. I like their sound (they’re known for their vocals, but their drummer is phenomenal). But I’m a fan because of their occasionally brilliant lyrics. The lead guy (Ben Gibbard) does most of the writing, [...]
Aaron McCarter is the Lead Pastor of Maryville Vineyard Church in East TN.