When new beginning abound, adventures are sure to be found.

This is a season of new beginnings for us.  About a month ago we said goodbye to the church family with whom we had served, grown, learned, and love for nearly nine years, propelled by God’s call to follow Him into the unknown.  We did so with heavy hearts, but also with a great deal of excitement.  God’s clear pattern throughout the Scriptures is that when He calls someone to follow Him into the unknown, while it may be scary and certainly isn’t always easy, the outcome is always good.  This ending, however, gave rise to a whole series of beginnings.  The old has given way to much that is new.  New community, new house, new job, new church family, new school for the kids, new patterns and rhythms, new places to go and see.  We are surrounded by beginnings everywhere we look.  And God has been faithful.  As much as we loved what we had, the people God has already placed in our path in this new place are wonderful and an encouraging harbinger of the exciting adventures that lie ahead of us.

What you are reading represents yet another beginning.  After much encouragement over the last several years and a fair bit of procrastination, this blog will be a place to share what God has laid on my heart and mind with you, a gracious reader who has taken valuable time out of your day to hopefully take part in what I intend to be a conversation.  A conversation about life and faith and the intersection–the nexus–thereof.  While I suspect this will change and develop over time, the plan from the outset for this platform is to regularly add three types of content.  The first will be reflections from out of the Christian worldview on life, faith, culture, politics, and the like.  The second will be an archive of my latest preaching at the First Baptist Church of Oakboro, NC (see above).  The third, which I’m going to call Quick Takes, will be notes and thoughts I have from out of my own study of the Scriptures.  I’ll share more details on these later.

For now, let the conversations commence.  Thank you for your time and attention, and I look forward to engaging with you and truly making this place a nexus–a place where the Christian worldview is highlighted as the central connection point for all of life.