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What’s Keeping You From Taking the Leap?

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Floodgate artist and partner – Dave Wilkins – created this short-film for a local festival. Please have a look, and then ask yourself one simple question: What’s keeping you from taking the leap you’ve been wanting to take? Tables & Chairs from Dave Wilkins on Vimeo.

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What I Might Say to My Twenty-Something Self

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This is the first post in a series called “What I Might Say”. In this series, I’m reflecting back on my life during a certain age, and speaking to that guy, in that place. During my 20′s, I graduated from Fresno Pacific University, with a degree in Contemporary Christian Ministries. I landed my first ministry [...]

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A Biblical Cure for Creative Insecurity

Artists and Creatives can be insecure people. I know this because I am one. And unfortunately, our insecurities can color the world we live in. While God created artists to add color and depth and feeling into this world, our insecurities work to subtract those very things from it. And while I was reading the [...]

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What If We Just Give Up?

I start this first post of 2012 with something that’s been forming in my heart for a while now. It’s simple, and a little deep. But not really that deep. Now more than ever, I believe that God’s primary working in our lives is to get us to let everything fall into His hands, and [...]

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Four Reasons Why We’re Not Generous

Everyone thinks they’re generous. Even the most cheap, stingy, self-centered person would attach the term “generous” to their personality. But we all know that it’s not that way. Indeed, many of us really struggle with possessing a heart of generosity. When we’re not generous, there are a few possibilities at play, all stemming from a [...]

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