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I work for a college ministry, so silly icebreaker questions are still a regular part of my life.  One that regularly comes up is “If you could have dinne...

While I don’t necessarily want to belabor the point of my previous post, I do want to point out one beautiful metaphor from Psalm 1: Blessed is the one   ...

I hate running.  I think at times in my life I’ve pretended I liked it, but in the past few years, I’ve just decided to own it.  I hate running.  Bu...

January seems like an appropriate time to talk about discipline.  That dirty little D-word.  None of us like it.  It sounds so harsh.  But, since we’re al...

New Years Day is quickly becoming one of the most formative days in my spiritual life.  It’s a day of new beginnings.  It’s a day of starting over. ...

New Year’s Day has always been something of a personal spiritual holiday for me.  I say always, and that’s obviously not true, but it has been such ...

The past week or two have been quite a mess for me.  I have been making silly mistakes everywhere.  2+2=3 mistakes.  Only my mistakes have been bigger, affectin...

So, you know how when you read the same story over and over, new things stick out to you each time.  Each Easter and Christmas we hear the same stories.  Each y...

It’s quite incredible really.  It’s the only place that we naturally die to ourselves without even thinking about it.  Without a choice in the matter really.   ...

I had a beautiful, very godly young woman ask me one time: “How do you die to yourself?”  She is a student in the college ministry I work for.  She truly desire...