This is a passionate post for me, and in this post I’m building on another post. There’s a great story that happened in the early church that informs everything I’m saying in the words below. _________________ “I don’t know what I’m great at.” How many times have
You’ve stumbled upon a four-part blog series called THE WAITING. This is Part One. ______________ You take it on faith, you take it to the heart The waiting is the hardest part Tom Petty I’m not too great at waiting. When I was a kid, my
Before anything we could label “the beginning” began, God was present. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – that exact Trinity existed long before the angels were created, even longer before the Garden of Eden grew into lush maturity, and even longer still
In the Judeo Christian worldview, there’s a concept of light and dark, of good and evil. And this worldview emphasizes the importance of believing in a real and actual good God, as opposed to a person-less force of good. It also invites me to embrace a real
I grew up in a faith tradition where following Jesus meant obeying the cultural rules associated with Jesus. We would hear that preached all the time. One of our pastors always spoke about the evils of cigarette smoking, and would openly question how anyone could be a
I received the following letter from a forty-something man. He had heard me speak at a conference, and handed it to me as he shook my hand after the presentation. If I didn’t know better, I kinda thought he might be Special Ops or something. It felt