Please know that this article is the result of my own processing, and is not a proclamation that I have it all together. Each of my next two articles about relationships have not been hastily-written or thoughtlessly-posted, but rather have been written with a lot of careful and heartfelt consideration (with counsel from trusted community). You may not agree, and that's … Continue reading Without the Destination →

More isn't always better. Faster doesn't always win. We know these things, but no one would think so by the way most of us Americans live. Go ahead and keep writing it off or label me a doomsday extremist, but the fact remains: Americans make up just five percent of the world's population, yet we … Continue reading Forward in the Wrong Direction →

I made pancakes this morning. I used the mix that only calls for water. It's a lot better than the kind that also requires eggs because it's a pain to have to go buy eggs every time I want pancakes. I don't always have eggs in my refrigerator, and if I do, I eat them … Continue reading God and Pancakes →

Prayer is a tough discipline to consistently pursue. To be honest, I still don't quite understand it. Back when I never prayed, good and bad things happened just like they do now. Loving and following Christ clearly doesn't mean nothing bad will happen, and it's slightly unnerving to recognize that God doesn't always seem to … Continue reading Prayer and Cheez-Its →

One of the biggest insecurities I think many Christ followers have is that we don't think we have enough credibility to represent Him to anyone. We don't have the answers to some of the tough questions they might ask us. We don't have an end times exegesis from Revelation ready to present at a moment's … Continue reading Credibility →

It's easy to convince ourselves that our dissatisfaction stems from someone else's shortcomings or our own inability to measure up to the world's standards. We think we have a perfectly good reason to be unhappy because clearly we're coming up short or missing out on the best life has to offer. Just look around and … Continue reading Releasing Dissatisfaction →

I saw a funny quote the other day suggesting that before we marry someone, we should observe their reaction when they're forced to use a computer with ridiculously slow Internet. Not a bad test of character, right? But it's sad how the rise of technology has caused our society to lose every ounce of patience … Continue reading The Third Temptation →

What does it look like to provide discipleship for others? Do you think of something like this photo? I used to. Is that weird? It's easy to think there are all sorts of prerequisites if you want to be a source of discipleship for someone else. You have to be able to teach. You need … Continue reading Discipleship →

For some, maybe 2013 was a rough year. Maybe 2014 isn't looking much better. But in many ways, good years and bad years are just a matter of perspective. I don't want to discount the hard times you've faced, but I will say that no matter what you've been through, God is big enough to … Continue reading Time →

I don't imagine many would argue against the idea that we have no real responsibility for what the nature of someone's "soil" for receiving the seed of the gospel is like. (We've all heard the parable, right? Some seed fell on the road, and the birds ate it up; some fell on the gravel, and … Continue reading You Had Your Chance →