Something Gary Weins (who, by the way, jumped on the blog bandwagon for a while but appears to have tapered off) taught on a while ago has really be helping me in my own time with God is about avoiding the sway to be a broker of the knowledge of God. When he said this [...]

I picked up The Divine Imperative, by Emil Brunner, at a used bookstore in downtown Kansas City a few days ago. I’d never even heard of the book or the author, but while I was paging through the book while standing in the aisle I came accross this line which made me buy the book [...]

I have been thinking about ‘staying steady’. About maintaining a longevity and passion in my life with God. There have been so many people my age that have started out strong and passionate and then fizzled out 5 or 10 or 15 years later and are now lukewarm, bitter or have even given up their [...]

It seems that the most common issue in Christian ministry is the issue of intimacy and relationship with God. When I was in high school and then Bible college my paradigm of going into ministry was really just based on my own pride and hunger for the spotlight. I wanted to be this big preacher [...]

John the Baptist said “There stands One among you whom you do not know.” It is so easy for me to point this sentence at others and say “yeah, those people don’t even know Jesus is in their midst.” But what about my life? Just because I’m in a positive spiritual atmosphere and I know [...]

You know how everyone seems to have their own personal ‘nitch’ in the Bible? It’s thier thing that they always tie everything else to. Personally I think it’s amazing how that works. One verse can have so many applications to so many people. It can get one person excited for evangelism, one person turned on [...]