It’s funny to me how things work out sometimes.
It seems to me like there are times in life where people basically mess everything up, and yet everything works out. And there are other times in life where people basically do everything right, and yet everything falls apart.
Read MoreIn 24 days I'm going to leave my church. I've been a Senior Pastor for 12 years, and I'm leaving. I'm not leaving Jesus. Just the opposite actually. But exiting traditional pastoral ministry is its own kind of spiritual journey, and it is as a person on that road that I heard the news that Joshua Harris, the pastor and writer most famously known for his 1997 mega-hit I Kissed Dating Goodbye, is both divorcing his wife and exiting Christianity.
Read MoreThere is a word that plays a surprisingly important role in my life these days, and that word is Hypocrite.
Nobody likes to think of themselves or anybody they like as a hypocrite, but in conversations about Christianity this word seems to come up all the time.
Read MoreI LOVE Thunderstorms.
I love to watch thunderheads rise up and build on the horizon. I love to watch the color of the clouds change and darken. I love the flash of the lightning, the crackle of the thunder. The rumble of the storm that you can almost feel in your chest as much as you hear it in your ears. For me, any day with a thunderstorm is a good one.
Read MoreA woefully incomplete history of how I stumbled into radio ministry and the earthquake that it’s causing in my life.
Read MoreBe it a questionable call in a football game, or a famous person getting into trouble with the law, or just hearing two random strangers arguing at the grocery store, people love controversy.
We’re drawn to it like a moth to a flame, and often with the same result.
Read MorePower, at it core, is the ability to change things.
Read MoreMy Grandpa was a peanut farmer on an 80-acre patch of land in Southern Oklahoma. But to make ends meet, he was also a carpenter. He built the house that He and my Grandma lived in for almost their entire married lives. And he built a lot of other things for them and for other people. He was the toughest man I ever knew, and he was an artist, albiet one who never would have accepted that description of himself.
Read MoreOnce upon a time, my spring sport of choice was track and my specific event of choice was the high hurdles.
Read MoreI have a bit of a weird hobby. Sometimes when I am at church or a sporting event or some other situation where a group of people are gathered, I look around and I think about all the stuff that is going on in each of our lives that nobody else knows about.
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