full circle…

full circle…

As we sat on the cherry-wood table in the green room at church last night, I had to share with him how much my life has changed. Largely in part to a simple conversation we had late one night near the Dead Sea. He never knew how much my life’s journey would be...
jumbo the elephant and me…

jumbo the elephant and me…

Jumbo was an elephant from the French Sudan who was so strong he could pick up trees from their roots, tow two tons, and stood over thirteen feet high. When I heard this on the radio this morning I didn’t believe it. But my friends Wikipedia and Google told it...
paulie, rocky, and fighting the fight…

paulie, rocky, and fighting the fight…

We are created for purpose. Intrinsically we all have desires of accomplishing something far beyond our natural capacity. It boils down to a simple fact: We all want to do something significant. In order to do something seemingly impossible, we need to possess a...
the buried life…

the buried life…

Everyone has dreams. Everyone has desires. So why it is so hard to vocalize dreams and desires? Perhaps it’s fear. Perhaps it’s failure. Perhaps it’s fear of failure. Or perhaps we don’t even know what we want. Last night my little sister...

Friday Video Post: youth ministry and the ONE…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxQ807Jm6E&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I was new to youth ministry when the youth pastor asked me to oversee the junior high and senior girls. In my grandiose ideas of living like Christ, I decided to emulate the actions of...

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