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Hope you all had a great break and Merry Christmas. We did at the Caro household. We avoided illness, awoke early,  opened gifts, played, sang happy birthday to Jesus and spent a wonderful and blessed time with family. I am full of thankfulness to God for His blessings.
January is officially on the way. A new year. A big [...]

Just a few days away… the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas! Now, usually I am pretty passive about social issues or activism. But this year a little righteous indignation set in. I will spare the details, but we have had to be vocal about Christmas being a religious and Christian holiday. People that [...]

This month in Greensboro, a record has already been set for number of homicides. Road rage…up. Violent crime… rising. Turn on the news and, behold, it is all bad. In my own life sometimes frustrations abound,  feelings of being unsettled.  
Do you, like me, feel a little like the shepherds and wise men of old? They needed, sought and couldn’t find peace. [...]

We are heading to South Carolina this weekend to be a part of a wonderful friend’s wedding. Scott Kizzire is an old friend from high school… one of only two people from high school with whom I have remained friends. He was in my wedding and Saturday he returns the favor.
Some fun facts: 1) he [...]

I think probably if I have have learned anything in the last  year it is a fresh definition of humility. Not that I was prideful… it was more about (over)confidence. Humility, I have found, is tied heavily to the idea that God is in charge (not us). In other words, when God is in charge, [...]

As many of you know, our daughter Chloe was born with a heart tumor that went away when she was 6 months old. It was discovered when my wife was still 25 or so weeks pregnant. It was a big ordeal because of what the tumor could have meant. Anyway, our doctor scheduled a fetal echo-cardiogram for [...]

I was in the hospital for congestive heart failure. It was actually December 6th, 2005. Parts of this story seem to me to be a blur. Here are parts that are not: 1) Sunday December 5th I woke up feeling like death. Being the music pastor, I was feeling badly that I could not make it [...]