Long before I ever had aspirations of church planting I worked as a welder in a fabrication plant that made magnetic cores for MRI machines. It was nowhere near as exciting as it sounds, it was assembly line work. One…
What we thought would be a routine procedure dragged out to three days in the hospital. The surgeon was amazingly kind, as were the nurses who meticulously cared for us. On the second day, when I began to realize that…
Our world equates success with more. More influence. More opportunities. More audience. Algorithms, surveys, and analytics push us even further into the obsession of how much influence we have compared with what we used to. The world screams that we…
I once heard a speaker call a fellow Christian an “EGR”—Extra Grace Required—person. I chuckled, along with the room. But the joke wasn’t truly funny. In my immaturity, I labeled my own “EGR” people in daily life. How unloving. How…
“Be good.” How many times did I say it as I walked out the door, leaving my kids in the care of another? Spoken in that context, it expressed a parting wish that the little one to whom it is…
Tears streamed down my face as I shared the news with my friend. I knew what I had to do was right, but it came with a price—the death of a dream. Confusion over what might replace this dream made…