(5 Minute Read) The other day I woke up with grief in my heart. It was a weird feeling, especially because I didn’t know why. That’s kind of the thing about grief. It comes unexpectedly and often unannounced. Grief is a deeply painful process, which tends to mean we aren’t very good at it. I […]
Read more "Acquainted with grief"(5 Minute Read) “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men, to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.” — Jesus (the Son of God) … There’s many ways that I think our society has created “modern-day Pharisaical” behavior, or, behavior that is hypocritical in nature, harsh […]
Read more "Modern-Day Pharisees: Dead Bones & Dirty Dishes"(3 Minute Read) I asked one of my close friends to write a guest post on the topic of hope. I asked him specifically because he recently come out of an extremely painful season and I watched him cling on to Hope more than ever during it. Here it is. “I hope you feel better […]
Read more "Hope is a Man"(7 Minute Read) The following is adopted from a sermon I wrote in my last year of ministry school. It is now my life motto. I played college football for five years. My senior year we were ranked 8th in the country going into our last two games, poised to win the conference and host […]
Read more "Hope Is My Balloon"(3 Minute Read) I heard an old Worship song today with a line in it that pierced my soul. Have you ever had that happen? A quote you’ve read, or a line from a song or movie you’ve seen many times just catches you off guard and you see the true meaning of it for […]
Read more "A Violent Kind of Hope"(7 minute read) I think the best moments of life often come while we are sitting around a table. John Mark McMillan once said that none of the accomplishments of life, “feel as good as sitting across the table from somebody, telling a story, laughing a little, crying a little, raising a glass and hearing […]
Read more "The Table"(5 Minute Read) I wrote this last September but I was scared to share it. My hope is that you’ll receive it with grace. I went into the summer of 2018 with one purpose: To have my eyes transformed to see Jesus as friend in my life, and to become a closer friend to Him. […]
Read more "Jesus, My Friend"I know I haven’t written in awhile, but I’ve been thinking a lot. Lately, I’ve really been thinking quite a lot about identity and how significant it is in our lives. It plays such a huge role in shaping us and motivating us within every situation of life, but I think we often times forget […]
Read more "Identity"Uganda, Africa. 2018. It has taken me a long time to even think about writing about our trip to Africa (or write at all, really), and although I’ve now thought about it a few times, I don’t know how to put it into words, really. But I’m going to try. There was so much that […]
Read more "Becoming A Child, Again"I turned twenty-three last weekend, and the days leading up to it I couldn’t help but reflect on the previous year. Year twenty-two was full of so much growth. Growth within myself and how I see myself; growth in relationship with people; and mostly (most importantly) growth with our Father and how I perceive Him […]
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The Serpent Dove 