TheDiscipleMD Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum… My love of this little Christmas song dates back a long way. Despite the wonderful and beautiful lyrics of other Christmas classics, this song for me speaks directly to my heart because it is so simple. It captures, for […]

TheDiscipleMD Many years ago, right after my wife and I got married, at the ripe old age of 22, I took my twelve-year-old Sunday School class to a local nursing home where we had regularly been visiting an older man who had no family.  On a bright sunny Sunday morning my class and I walked […]

TheDiscipleMd As I waited with my seven siblings on the steps of the unfinished basement I could hardly contain my anticipation. I was an eight year old boy, the seventh of eight children born to my parents. My eyes fixed on the doorknob waiting…waiting…waiting for it to turn and open up to the feast of […]

THE DISCIPLE It was Christmas Eve and my wife had just got home from the hospital after giving birth to our second son. It had been a tough year.  And so it was that as I sat on the hard kitchen chair that night,  I can still remember the dim lite apartment that we were living […]