The Church: Consumerism
I suppose it shouldn’t come to a surprise that when you spend your days beings fed marketing and advertisements about everything that will make your life easier, happier, fulfilling; that we start to treat Church …
Learning to Love the Church
I love the Church. But also, I hate the Church. But also, what is the Church? When someone hears the word “church” what comes to mind? Boring. Archaic. Judgmental. Hypocritical. Corporate. Structures. Politics. Hopefully some …
Floods, Fires, & Faith
What do Job and Joseph have in common with Jesus? They went through floods and fires & kept their faith. I’m in a period in my life where I’m sick of fires, literally and figurately. …
Personality Tests or Pursuing Holiness?
Personality tests. You love them or you hate them. Actually, I both love and hate them. I secretly love analyzing and studying people. What motives someone, why do they act that way, why are they …
Peace in a Troubled World
Every day life brings plenty to worry about. We worry about how our kids will mature. We worry about meeting a deadline at work. We worry about a friend who’s mad at us. We worry …
Romans: The New Adam
How many arguments have been started over issues of fairness? We fight with our kids because they think a rule isn’t fair or we fight with our friends because they weren’t treating us fairly. Yet, …
Keep Running The Race
I’m one of those want to be super athletic but is slightly too uncoordinated to really succeed in organized sports. I can, however, run and managed to stay in my lane for track, even succeeding …
Prayer – Exploring 5 Types
Welcome to part two on my prayer series. You can check out the first video to hear more about my personal experience and journey with prayer, but now we will focus more on what the …
Prayer: A Journey
We’ve all had different experiences with prayer and how we were raised and taught will have a lot of impact on how we pray now. For me, I grew up in the Catholic Church and …
Romans: All Fall Short
Expectations. Have you ever tried to live up to someone else’s expectations? We can try and try, but the pursuit of meeting the expectations is often futile, frustrating, and impossible. Often times these are even …