"What you do is NOT who you are…but who you ARE has a tremendous impact on what you do." These are the words from a mentor of mine. They expose a truth that our 7am-to-7pm working culture has lost touch with. There is a great disconnect in our cultural understanding about “work”. We have wrongly [...]
The Bible is a BIG book. It is “big” not only because its contents take up many thin, silky pages, but because it spans many lifetimes. It is a “big” book not only because it contains many plotlines, authors, streams of thought, and depictions of history through particular Hebraic lenses, but because it contains a [...]
As married men, we are husbanding something. It is how we are wired. The trouble is, most of us young men husband something other than our wife. Often it is our job that gets our full husbanding energies. We accidentally fall into the trap of husbanding our life instead of husbanding our wife. We do [...]
How does God take two unique and gifted people and set their course together in this miraculous bond called marriage? One of the earliest descriptions we have of a man and woman coming together in a marriage union is found back at the headwaters of humanity when the first two beings, Adam and Eve, are [...]
What is a good church? This is a good question. This is an appropriate question. It is timely. Yet, the question itself appears to me to be fragmental. At first glance the question causes my mind to instinctively divide the church, separate it, denominationalize it, de-unify it. The idea of isolating a “good” church apart [...]
