TO AGREE & RETURN

Last week was the 1 year anniversary of the release of my book To Be Concluded. Below is an excerpt, exploring Confession and Repentance. As Easter approaches, this is an invitation to prepare...

MIDWEEK CONNECTION- It’s Wednesday!

Currently, I’m teaching a series, Everyday, Ordinary. Our church is learning what it looks like to walk with God in our actual lived lives. We know that God is always at work in us and that His...

MY ONE WORD 2023…

ANIMATE It’s done. I have finished My One Word for 2022: IMAGINATION. But rather than just stopping one word and picking another, I have spent the first few weeks of 2023 seeing what IMAGINATION...

WHY I WANTED TO KEEP MY WORD AND WHAT I DID ABOUT IT

John 7:38 (NIV) Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. My One Word for 2022 was IMAGINATION. It has been my favorite. This word has...

SKETCH MONTH

I studied architecture in college. Mostly, this means I got to use colored markers and draw a lot of pictures. But architecture school taught me the incredible importance of process – how an...

NO BANG REQUIRED

The beginning of year is filled with fireworks and fast starts. It’s how we get things done. We all feel the pressure to start the year off with a bang–which is not the same as...

A GOOD STOPPING POINT

A good stopping point is a place where you can pause a project that is not yet complete. You can come to a “good stopping point” when cleaning your room or working in the yard. You...

HOW IT STARTED

My first journal entry in 2004 was a single word: FLOW.  Not just written on the page, but etched in bubble letters about 3/4 of an inch tall.  The letters are heavily outlined, surrounded by a...

A Better Way

Our natural approach to change is to simply promise to be different. So we make lists of the things we want to change and we make corresponding promises. The promise approach does the opposite of...

It Isn’t All or Nothing

  You’ve likely heard the stats – or like me, lived them. Millions of Americans make New Year’s Resolutions, but less than 10% succeed with the changes they are trying to...