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...

The Church of Jesus Christ has been over the last 2000 years done more good than harm. Way more good than harm. From feeding the poor, to clothing the naked, to providing aid to the destitute, to starting hospitals, and clinics, providing seed to the begger, digging wells, creating jobs to even ending slavery. But……….. The Church of Jesus Christ...

I enjoy comfort. Actually I desire comfort. I want comfort for my children, my children’s children and their children. I hope to live my life in a way that enables them to live in comfort. I want to retire in comfort. I want my wife to be surrounded with comfort, I want to provide her comfort and receive comfort. There is nothing wrong with comfort. The...

Over the last two plus years, I have been on a quest to find the perfect church. I had these strict demands and I wasn’t going to quit until these demands were met. I had an ideal vision of what church should look like and I wanted that ideal to become a reality. And I did this at all cost. No matter who I alienated, no matter who I offended, no matter what...