Learning to Wait and Step Into The Absurd
I’ve found myself on the struggle bus for almost 2 months now. I’ve found myself angrily asking “where are you God?” Everything looks like failure and yet, there’s a [...]
I’ve found myself on the struggle bus for almost 2 months now. I’ve found myself angrily asking “where are you God?” Everything looks like failure and yet, there’s a [...]
As adults we love epic stories and movies. In books, we connect with fairytales and fantasies that excite us. But before we destroy children’s joy, love, and belief in world saving missions [...]
Most people think pornography addiction is “no big deal.” Everyone looks, but doesn’t tell. What the stats and stories are telling us is quite different. We’re a [...]
Loving people is hard. Loving messy people is even harder. But God’s greatest demand is that we “Love God and Love people” and his claim is that EVERYTHING (the law and [...]
For so long I’ve had the message of performance beat into me. If I want God to love me, then I better do what he says. I better not blow it. And when I stumble he’s just waiting to [...]
7 Years ago I was battling through a divorce, depression and anger coming home from Iraq, and slew of other addictions. I was a really hard, hard guy to get along with and was not necessarily the [...]
Growing up I felt I got lied to a lot by the American Church. Everyone was pretty. No one walked into church having marriage issues. No one had porn or alcohol issues. Nope. We were all pretty [...]
There is a travesty happening in the American Church. 90% of Americans will get married at some point in their life, but churches everywhere continue to only train people how to date well in [...]
In 1999 the movie the Matrix came out and many of us easily related to the feelings of the main character, Neo. Were we awake or really dreaming? Were we just drifting through life? Are we [...]
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