Community Promotes Formation

Everyone is terrified to be known! With that first tentative step into community, you risk being known.  That includes the good, the bad and the ugly.  Putting yourself out there is scary, but...

Hide & Seek

As odd as it might sound, when I am walking outside sometimes I am looking for places that would make good spots to hide. I blame it on the numerous summer days spent playing Hide and Seek with my...

It’s Over There . . .

There is a famous story academics like to use called The Drunkards Search and it goes like this. A police officer finds a rather inebriated man staring down at the ground under a street lamp...

Obedience Is Harsh

Obedience seems so harsh. It sounds to us like because I said so. Who wants to hear this? The problem is that our view of the one who utters the command. If they are absent and hostile and...

Struggling with God’s Promises

I see little-to-no separation between My One Word and Biblical principles. My word is about who I want to be and its biblical principes that will shape me into that person.  Of course, the...

Jell-O Legs

A bit advice for husbands: when your wife asks you to do a RPM spin class at the gym, politely say no. If not youll find yourself in the same awkward predicament I experienced a few days ago. In a...

Dancing With The Stars

Based on the ratings, it is safe to guess that one of Americas guilty pleasures is wasting time watching Dancing with the Stars. There is something oddly fascinating about borderline celebrities...

Ear of an Angel

Perspective: the appearance to the eye of objects in respect to their relative distances and positions A few weeks ago I was blessed with the opportunity to spend an entire afternoon alone in New...

Vantage Point

Your Word is not just a promise that you must keep or else you will fail.  It is more about the process of formation than a destination in which you will be holy. This is an interesting...

Looking Through a Compass . . .

Thermostats are pretty important but easy to ignore. If you’re reasonably comfortable you don’t even think about it. Thermostats are pretty simple: they have a sensor, a comparator and...