by Andy Baker | Dec 15, 2020 | VITAL Men Devotions
I am writing this while doing what I do a lot of these days: sitting at the pool while my daughter swims. I’ve learned over the past few years that being a swimmer takes a rather ridiculous amount of hard work. It requires knowing all the strokes and practicing them...
by Andy Baker | Dec 8, 2020 | VITAL Men Devotions
A few years ago, my family and I spent a year apart due to civil unrest here in Nicaragua. This was difficult on a daily basis, but come April it was almost impossible. Not only had it been a long time without family, but living in Nicaragua in April is like living on...
by Andy Baker | Nov 24, 2020 | VITAL Men Devotions
When I was a Pastor stateside I often coordinated local work days in my community. I would typically get harassed on these days because I often ended up driving from site to site and never actually doing any construction work (being in charge does have its benefits)....
by Andy Baker | Nov 17, 2020 | VITAL Men Devotions
There have been a number of things that have made me nervous as a pastor, but perhaps not more so than the summer I spent interning as a hospital chaplain. I spent the months ahead of my internship a nervous wreck, because I knew that part of the position involved...
by Andy Baker | Nov 10, 2020 | VITAL Men Devotions
Let’s play a little true/false game. True or False: the Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world? That would be true. Second question: you can burn 100 calories by kissing someone? While some of us may wish that to be true, it’s actually quite false. Last one: a...
