What’s really important?
It is a strange thing to search for a church. Every part of me feels like any church that believes in the resurrection of Christ should be home for me, but for some reason it doesn’t quite work that way…
Church: Do I Need It?
Do you watch survival or off grid shows? Like any of the Alaska shows, or Mountain man, or Alone? Somebody is out in the wilderness and they have to live off the land…
Modification or Transformation
“SPIRITUAL GROWTH HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE ON SOMETHING NEW. SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS WHEN SOMETHING OLD FALLS AWAY.” - SUSAN STABILE
Read time 6 minutes.
Safe Space Not Required
There was one word that could be uttered between my Dad and I growing up that could instantly end a conversation. This word could never, ever, be misused. It could never be a joke. It meant more than anything we owned. It was easily the most valuable thing we had…
Read time 7 minutes.
Inhospitable
Believe it or not, I am not a people person. I once took a spiritual gifts test and scored a whopping six percent in hospitality. I was not surprised by this score whatsoever, but as I have jokingly shared that story with others they are usually pretty shocked…
5 minute read.
Who Gives You The Right?
There is an episode of Gilmore girls where Logan, Rory’s wealthy college boyfriend, makes a bad business deal and loses millions of dollars. Obviously upset, Logan acts terribly and comes home drunk, goes to Vegas to party with friends, and avoids checking in with the Boss: his dad. He is being “awful” in the words of Rory and after a few days of this behavior his dad busts into the apartment he and Rory share and chastises Logan for his business mistake and the immature way in which he has been handling it…
6 minute read.
Faith of Any Kind
Have you ever been asked what kind of faith you have?
It wasn’t until I was reading Mark Batterson’s book The Circle Maker that this question was ever posed to me. Before his book I’m not sure how I would have answered that question. Maybe: strong? good? bold?
6 minute read.
What would you do?
Do you remember that ABC News segment, “What Would You Do?” They would set up scenarios where a woman would be ripping out the pages of a cookbook in a bookstore, or a hairdresser in a salon would make comments about an interracial couple, or a wife was being berated by her husband in the park all to see how bystanders would react. Would anyone speak up or step in? Overwhelmingly the answer was often no. People would look appalled or whisper to whomever they were with but they wouldn’t actually DO anything.
7 minute read.
Do you have a platform?
Most of us probably feel like we will never have a “platform.” We will never have a stage to stand on, a profile with millions or even thousands of followers, or an opportunity to speak to the masses. But the truth is that we not only have a platform, we use it with every breath we take…
6 minute read.