Your Life is the Best Testimony I grew up in an Evangelical tradition. I’m grateful for that, and for the many individuals who poured into my life through the years and were great examples of faith. They demonstrated faith to me in practical, living ways – not just...
It takes longer than you think The hope of a new relationship brings with it a whole truck of emotions. Packed with furniture, memories, and wounds from past relationships. We have a whole framework that we bring into a developing friendship that we might not even be...
Bringing the Conversation Everywhere This past week, I was leading a peer support group. God was leading me in active prayer. It’s a unique position of listening to the participants as they share very real, very deep wounds in their lives, while also seeking to move a...
We all started somewhere Every single person comes from a family. That family is made up of imperfect individuals who may have been trying their best, but passed down parts of themselves that live on in you today. Moments of joy, insecurity, fear, trauma, and pathways...
They Thought Better I can remember the feeling clearly. I was sitting in another meeting that was steeped in religious overtones, with individuals taking on mantles of authority and telling others what God was saying to them. It just so happened to be exactly what the...
You may believe… We all have beliefs that we hold about God, Jesus, and the Spirit’s work in our lives. Those beliefs may not be found in who He really is, but what we’ve learned from others or what we’ve created ourselves. We’re very good at crafting God to fit our...
