Confessions of *Failure and Success

The other night I was thinking about how much money my wife and I used to make when we lived in TX.  I had a job as a Youth Pastor and Andrea worked in HR at a large company.  We have consistently made less money every year after we moved back from TX.
I can see [...]

I like the end of a year and the beginning of another.
I have some resolutions, but they never seem to matter, goals do…
The small steps toward wholeness, the completion of a task and the shaping of another.
Lately, I have been witness to hard times in relationships and I think that there is a depth to [...]

I have been thinking about fear lately.  Halloween is a time where people embrace the “scary” and have fun with the idea of horror and death.  The community I grew up in disapproved and even went as far as to judge those who participated in Halloween.  Currently, I am kind of ambivalent to the holiday, [...]

Why do we judge each other?
Honestly, what do you think?
This weekend I was in “the wildwoods” and I was around a majority of people outside of my everyday context. People whom like Nascar, Bud Light, Marlboro Red, the NRA, among other things stereo typical of this demographic.
But wait, we all are apart of a [...]

Lately I have been morning my inability of having fun.
Then I realized fun is a choice I am not making in my day to day decisions.
I have become obsessed by the work I long to complete that is un completable on a large scale.
There are things that are fun for me, i am now doing.
Cooking [...]

This weekend I will go away with some friends to North Carolina.
In preparation for this trip I think about a couple things:
How much money will i spend?
How far will I be behind in my work on my return?
How much sleep will I get?
IN these questions is the suggested assumption that negative things will take place.
The [...]

I had a conversation with one of the people on our Sales Team.
This is an amazing person with a heart to serve others. He is caught in a place I have found myself in several times. A place where hard work is just not enough of a motivation to do everything in there [...]

A preacher is one who communicates the gospel to people.
I have often found it hard to view the pastor as the soul preacher, even more now than before. Today we have all sorts of preaching but very little gospel revelation.
I have scene the gospel and I have experienced the Kingdom in the most unlikely [...]