Not long ago I came to a point in my life where I sensed something was missing. I had a wife and a solid marriage that flourished within the dreaded first year of companionship. I had a job that was allowing me to gain experience in the field I pictured myself working in the rest…
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Exclusive Offer for Why Holiness Matters
**UPDATE** This special offer has expired. If your receipt is valid from August 1st through 17th I will still honor it. My first book, Why Holiness Matters: We’ve Lost Our Way—But We Can Find it Again is officially available. I’m so excited to share this book with you! It’s a message I believe to be…
The Three: Mentoring Edition
1. My friend (and former co-worker/boss) John Sowers recently won the White House Champions of Change award. It truly couldn’t have been given to a better individual so consistently caring for people in need. Here’s a piece of the article the White House blog ran about John receiving the award: We believe that we win…
The Three
1. One of the themes I worked on for the first few chapters in the book was how valuing authenticity and brokenness in the church leads toward a comfort with sin. It’s difficult for people (at least it was for me) to understand what I have to be broken about if I don’t have a…
So You Want to Be a Mentor?
Yesterday the interim teaching pastor at my church, Jay Barber, gave a message on mentoring. Spiritual mentoring is one of four key values my church has identified as important in a person’s spiritual growth. For the last year and a half I’ve been on what we’ve called the “Mentor Team” assisting staff and volunteers as…
More Than a Game
It’s a common saying after winning or losing a sports game of some kind: “It’s just a game.” And the fact of the matter is that the people who say that (I know I have) are right. Sports are after-all, just a game. To bet on it, fans all over the globe can jump to…