Month: October 2019

Sometimes I write things I am unsure of. I do this on purpose. Unbaked thoughts only come full-term when they are examined, drawn out of their slumbered dwelling, and made to lay under dissection. This is difficult when running a public blog. As the writer examines and digs for some greater truth, the audience can … Continue reading Writing For You →

Do we need more churches? This question has been with me throughout my life. Some days, it percolates in the background, while others it blares to me before my morning coffee. Driving considerably for my job, I cruise by many steeples. Many of them within walking distance from each other. Many within a stones throw. … Continue reading Do We Need Another “Church”? →

As dusk turns to night, I find myself alone with my thoughts. The only audience I have are two pensive felines either waiting for food, or some greater truth all together. These are prime moments - the hours between toddler slumber and my own. As night falls, the words of my favorite theologian whispers between … Continue reading Cutting Onions of Humiliation →

Today my little guy turns 2. This week I went through the extreme emotions of a doting dad with a growing shadow. Reflecting on year 1 to 2 has led me to notice a few differences from year 0 to 1. For example, I don't remember ever uttering the phrase "please stop trying to ride … Continue reading Turning 2, a Patient Tabby, and a Doting Father →

17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him/her it is sin. - James 4:17 ESV This is an indicting verse. Not so many passages are as easy to translate as this. Yet, in our application, we must tread carefully. When I read Scripture, or truly anything that inspires, … Continue reading We Are Capable of More →

There is no greater change of role in this big world than that from consumer to producer. From our first breath, to our last, the natural condition of life is to consume. Call it sin or call it the human condition. Either way, we are consumers through and through. All religions, at their core, work against this instinct. They push practitioners to contemplate … Continue reading Produce > Consume →

Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, 2 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3 and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, … Continue reading Women, Church, and What Could Be →