I am a soldier in a war that is diametrically opposed to all that is cool. By cool, I’m not talking about your gel-quaffed hair and fond memories of being in a boy band or my obsession with anyone that mentions the atari 2600. My mission is simply to help people reach their audience on [...]

The Bible is filled with seeming paradoxes but there is one recurring theme. God’s strength is revealed most in our weakness. In a previous post I discussed what I have control over and what is out of control and found the answer to the first to be “very little” and the second to be “quite [...]

Stop running from him
Sit and wait for him
Turn around and run toward him
Realize he is everywhere
Quit being afraid and talk to him
Shut up and listen to him
Ask for forgiveness
Forgive others
Ask for him to save me
Give my life to him

If not, then what is?

Denial that I’m wrong reveals pride that made me nearly impossible to be around
Denial of the problems themselves results in collateral damage as the people who I love are pulled into it
Denial of God’s calling on my life kept me from wisdom and loving relationships that bring me closer to knowing the person of Christ.

Guys [...]

I knew this one person who was the most angry person I had ever met. They literally screamed and argued with everyone. Once people stopped subjecting themselves, they argued alone.
So you’d think after drinking all that in, I would have taken every precaution to act completely different, right? I’ll share a little nugget here which [...]

There are two camps of worriers.

Those that do what we think of when we think of worrying. They look scared & timid. They do the cartoon bit of chewing off fingernails like they’re a typewriter. They can’t make a decision and bungle situations they would normally nail. I have been this person.
The others are those [...]

Pretty wild - I have Akismet enabled on this blog to catch spam comments before they are posted and it has sequestered 16,095 spam blog comments to date. I think every blog gets a pretty steady dose of these, but I’m sure that the topics of sex, drugs, and rock and roll do us no [...]

I’m passionate about the topic of recovery from addictions and the underlying spiritual issues that distance us from God and distract us from his eternal purpose. Yet this is a hard message to get out at times. This battle is fought one life at a time, one day at a time.
But wouldn’t it be great [...]

Accountability partner - get in a 12-step group. If you’re not in one, I recommend a Christ-centered one because Jesus is the one that will bring this healing, not us and only being allowed vague references to a “higher power” frustrate many believers involved with secular recovery. That being said though, Christ-centered recovery is not [...]