I had a good talk with my brother Jeff this morning. It had been a while since we talked. Why? Well simply I have been busy but even more the reason was because I was really exhausted. Exhausted from work, school, family activities, active children, even exhausted emotionally. As I take inventory of my time and even the time of us Westerners we are so busy....

I will tell you last night was the first time I have conversed with God with any real meaning and expectation to hear from Him in some time. I have not read a page of the bible in a few months, I have not sacrificed any of myself in a few months and I honestly struggled with the fact of being a Christian. Why? I don’t know. There were a combination of events...

  Over the past few months I have had a lot of time to think about stuff. I actually have thought about a lot of stuff come to think about. One of those things is “life” and what it means. You see void of any spiritual aspirations, life is just life. I started to ask to myself without God what is life and what value does life have. I have come to a...

“You are saved by grace through faith” Today because we live in a country where the vast majority claim to be Christian we have now become afraid of Grace. The apostle Paul wrote those words above to a group of individuals who were not living as those who have become new in Christ. Today it is the type of church you go to, the type of music you listen...

1. If I believed in the resurrection, the American dream would be appalling. 2. If I believed in the resurrection I would support missions wrecklessly. 3. If I believed in the resurrection I wouldn’t be embarrassed about Jesus. 4. If I believed in the resurrection I would forgive as I have been forgiven. 5. If I believed in the resurrection my image would be...

Hate to do this again but I will be breaking from blogging for a little while. School, work, gym and dance class (yes taking dancing lessons) will consume my time. Not to mention children! So I don’t know when I will be back but it may be a while this time. I also have to build a blog and refine the group I work with serving the elderly and homeless.  Hats...

Another positive thing about being in simple/organic expressions of church life was the giving. Why? Well simple, we didn’t give to the “church”. You may say “whats good about that” or “well you guys weren’t giving” which are necessary questions. Yes we gave. But we gave to people or to specific organizations that the...