I spent years making a living with the following conversation.
Me: (to distressed couple) “Tell me how you would like things to be in your marriage.”
Distressed Husband, “I would like her to stop…” Read more…
What if the problem that Jesus came to solve could actually prevent us from understanding the problem that Jesus came to solve? Read more…
Fittingly enough I was in a cow pasture, surrounded, by, well, cow products. I was in a surly mood, and I was preparing to duke it out with God. Yeah, with God. Read more…
In the devils’ personal war on words, the word “authority” is one of his favorite victims. I think he chooses his targets based on how much God likes them and how important they are to God’s people. Read more…
I have been involved in way too many conversations about designing metrics to help measure and ultimately improve the effectiveness of “the church”. I struggle deeply with this conversation every time. When you set out to measure a thing, you must first begin to break it down into the kinds of things you want to measure. Read more…
Some of them stand with signs claiming that their venomous hate represents the God of the Universe. Some of them gather in buildings identified by signs and systems. Some of them claim the internet as their domain and their “flock”. Read more…
How did we get in this mess? If you have read through any of my past posts you have heard my thoughts on the fall of man, and living from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Don’t Have The Sense I was Born With, That Tree Will Kill You) Read more…
We ask questions whether we mean to or not. Our soul is asking questions, and the questions can be identified by watching the things that we consider to be answers. Everyday existence shoots questions at us, like, “does my life matter?”, Read more…
Figuring out what we are doing wrong is not always the key to doing it right. In fact, often, figuring out what we are doing wrong is the first step to doing it wrong again, but in a new way that deceptively feels like we have fixed the problem. Read more…
I have recently been pondering this simple yet significant trap. Christianity is a belief system based on a worldview to which most western Christians do not ascribe. Read more…
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