I must admit: one of my favorite movies is Live Free or Die Hard with Bruce Willis and Justin Long. It’s a combination of action and nerd. It’s perfect. In the movie a terrorist group begins executing a fire sale. Long’s character (a hacker who was being picked up as a suspect for the fire sale) explains […]
You Can Give Up Trying to Be Well-Rounded
Just give up. Give up trying to be well-rounded because you were never meant to be so… One thing I love to do is to take people through a process where they can discover how they are wired – how God has designed them. Just recently I got to do this through a new process […]
This Baffles Me About the Church
So, about the Church… When I first began interacting with her, it was at a large Assemblies of God congregation in my hometown of Fort Wayne, IN. I saw the work of God in a couple close to me and I asked them if I could go to church with them! I was drawn to what […]
Why We Long for the Unseen in Times of Difficulty
In times of difficulty we long for something beyond the here and now, beyond the day-to-day, beyond what we can see. It doesn’t matter your fundamental beliefs about the origin of life, your purpose on earth, or even whether you believe in God or not – when difficulty comes in, we inevitably look beyond what […]
Christianity Without Repentance is Dead
Repentance. It’s one of those borderline scary church words, isn’t it? I truly believe the statement is true: Christianity without repentance is dead. Why? Because repentance is fundamental to not only initial transformation, but it is also fundamental to the every day faith journey of Christ followers. The kitchen door in my grandmother’s house is […]
Does God Really Love Me?
Does He? Does God really love me? The question burns from the deepest part of me. It wells up like a raging storm disrupting everything inside of me and every thought that goes from me into the world. I wonder. I search. I desire an answer. How can I really know? I live in a […]