Soul Man

Ouch!

If you are a parent, you have had to discipline your children for their disobedient behavior, disrespectful tones, and damaging words. If you are anything like me, it breaks your heart to discipline your children (Space does not permit me to talk about all the ways we can discipline our ...

Short Rides, Long Memories

I am not certain when it started (maybe three or four years ago), but it has become an annual tradition for the Williams family. Every year, on the kids' last day of school, my boys and I ride our bikes to their school. It's not a long ride, but it ...

A Month From Now

Next month, July 7-14, my beautiful bride and I will be going here to celebrate our 16th year anniversary. When I went through the second year of Men's Fraternity, led by Robert Lewis, he encouraged us to have a weekly escape, a monthly experience and a yearly extravaganza. So, this ...

My Health Account

I believe my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and I should glorify God with my body. I should not make my body an idol and neither should I treat it like it doesn't matter at all. Part of my ministry coaching process is to create a vision ...

Little Girls Need Their Daddys!

A while ago I had a conversation with an 8 year old child that simply broke and melted my heart. It was a conversation about her not feeling wanted and loved by her dad. She thought she was the seeming unimportant pawn in the chess match of her mother and ...

Don’t Drink It!

In John 3, the followers of John the Baptist tried to get him to drink the heart-numbing elixir of jealousy and envy when they said, "the one who you said is the Messiah is baptizing people, too." They must have been living the thug life because they asked John: "Do ...

Yet, I Sleep

“Get up and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation.” Reading Luke 22 this morning, the echoes of these ancient words reverberated through the corridors of my soul. I was convicted - guilty as charged. Just hours before he would carry all of humanity's sins on his shoulders ...

New House

Here is a picture (Yes! I was the photographer.) of our new digs in Haslett, Michigan. God is really gracious toward his children. Yesterday morning, around 10:20, Tonia and I began signing a 2 inch stack of papers to close on our new house in Haslett, Michigan. By 11:30, we had ...

Happy Birthday, Marvin Jr!

Thirteen years ago today (May 27th, at 11:25 a.m.), God blessed Tonia and me with our first child - a boy - Marvin Jr. He weighed in at 6 lbs and 12 ounces and was 20 inches long. Today, we celebrate his quirky humor, silly and passionate laugh, bottomless stomach ...

People Don’t Have to Be Nice

Yesterday, as I was about to leave the office, my executive administrator brought a beautiful bouquet of flowers in to me. This was a "welcome to the city of Lansing" gift to Tonia and me (mainly Tonia) from Pastor Larry Trice and his wife, Lena, from Tabernacle of David. We ...