I guess this one kinda goes along with the past two posts as well in the fact that I struggle with reading.  Reading the Bible.  I’ve always been taught or encouraged to read, read in a way that was more of a habit, bound by time and a specific way of handling the scripture.  I [...]

This one is going to be short probably.  But this one is a struggle for me. A lot of times I say ” I’ll pray for you ” or ” I’ll pray about this or that ” – and usually what happens is I end up lying.   I don’t know about you, but I [...]

Sometimes it hurts too much to peel back the layers and feel what’s under there. Yet what we’re not healing is hurting us somehow. I believe that the more I share my life and process honestly, the more I can heal, and, in turn, help others to heal. -Sark (ht: thelongbrake dot com)

Hey all, Its been a while since I really have posted anything at all. Life has been kicking my butt in the area of work and trying to have somewhat of a social life as well, so thus the lack of blogging. Its not that I don’t have much to write about, in fact I [...]

Today I came across a post by a blogger I follow who is the Director of Communications at Park Community Church in Chicago, Illinois.  The post is actually a repost from this blog.  The context of the original post is discussing some of the happenings in California over the issue of same sex marriages.  In the original post this [...]

…is a song that I first heard a couple of weeks ago by one of my favorite music artist Ross King at Gravity Bookstore. This song hit me hard, and has been wracking my brain thinking about it ever since. Don’t get me wrong this isn’t a bad song or anything like that. It’s just [...]

Its been about a month since I finished reading this book by Mike Erre called “Why Guys Need God”, but it has been challenging to who I am as a Man and as a believer. Here is a short interview of Mike sharing his thoughts behind the book and what its about. I agree with [...]

It seems that I just have a hard time letting some things go.  If you’ve read my post about forgiveness (see below a few posts), this is some of what I am talking about.  I have a hard time grasping onto the reality that my thoughts, frustrations, bitterness, anger, etc can be forgiven by God, [...]

I’m beginning to wonder if we use this phrase as a cliche to often?  Don’t we seem to use it when were in times of trouble?  Times of need or perhaps interruptions from our comfort?  Do we use the phrase “To God be the Glory” as if we have some control over the situation and [...]

Tonight while I was getting a shower I was thinking about this again.  You see I have been thinking about this for a little while now.  Its been something I have been dealing with and not sure how to deal with it.  I think here in the U.S. we look on forgiveness as a bad [...]

Happy Easter! Jesus is Risen. Praise the Lord. He is in heaven to return one day! Courtesy of asboj

“He (God) brings light where there was darkness, truth where there was deceit, freedom where there was slavery, and forgiveness where there was shame and guilt. To live honestly, we must fight through our justifications, minimizations, and rationalizing and admit we are wrong. This is a big deal. Too much of church and religion entices [...]

How often do we think what we do, God’s got to pay us back? Like He’s owed us something in the first place. I and I think other’s often think this. If we’d just read the Bible a little more, if we would hand out one more track, if we would just pray a couple [...]

This past Tuesday Danny, Cassie, Matt, Jenn and I meet again to continue our discussion and review what we listened to in the theology track “Words of God or Words of Men: A theology of the Bible track“. Last week we listened to the first hour of a two hour part session. The second hour [...]

I’ve been following a church on the west coast for some time now. Back in October I believe it was they started a theology track that was gonna run about 9 months. About a month or so ago they posted some of the first months on there website. I shared the audio files with some [...]