I got to go hunting with some great friends of mine this past week. We spent a few days together in really cold weather where the majority of our time was spent eating meat around a warm fire. My wife doesn’t like hunting very much, so she was not too upset to see me come […]

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I like themes in life. This idea, “From ‘whatever’ to ‘what if’” is a theme that arose when trying to engage young people in serious life, God, and spiritual matters.
Here is the premise; I have found this word “whatever” to be entirely unnerving in our culture. It reeks of the complacent uninspired apathetic culture that […]

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I have this rule about invitations. More of a goal really, rules are not as much fun…
The first time someone invites me to anything, I make it my top priority to go. It may be a ball game, a party, a dinner, an art show, something I am interested in or something I don’t […]

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There are a lot of challenges we face in this post modern world in communicating the gospel clearly… BUT hasn’t that been true of all generations and ages? Things may be different now rather than 50 years ago, but they are always changing right!? I am tired of this obsession with analytically analyzing “the challenges […]

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Marriage is hard. I used to get all fussy when people used to tell me (when I was single) that marriage is “really hard, and really good.” What the heck does that mean! Singleness is hard and good, everything can be described that way can’t it?… Now I get it. And I’ve found it […]

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I work a regular sales job that keeps me pretty busy running all over the place. Everyone knows that sales is all about relationships. Lets be serious, who wants to buy something from a salesman? I know I don’t. But I am okay with buying something from a friend, actually I’m more than okay with […]

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Part of being missional is that it requires you all the time, in every place with everyone. Doesn’t mean that you have to feel the pressure of “always being on.” No, quite the opposite, it is something that should take such a precedence in your life that it just is. It is just the way […]

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“In every age God has his men who have retired from life’s noise and confusion, have withdrawn from its ambitions and jealousies, and have entered into the secret of a life that is hidden in God. This does’nt mean that these men necessarily escape from life’s dangers and dilemmas, but it does mean they […]

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