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 [...]

Over the past couple of weeks I have been having this re-occuring thought about how business is more fun than my formor work in the church.
Here is what I find excitting/fun:
1. Creating Jobs: I still can not get over the thought that somehow creating a marketable good in the economy of Specialty Coffee, [...]

Andrea, my wife of six years this June 1st, is finishing her MBA in ecconomic development from, and I was able to spend an evening with her class, which confirmed my need to be around more thinking Christians. People who are engaged in the world, realizing, “hey I can not change the world, but [...]

So I have been thinking a lot about this title of my blog…
I do not like it anymore… (Any suggestions?)
Here is why:
Every month since December I face a goal that seems larger than my capability to fulfill. There is a sense of fear all around me and I wake up with my heart [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For over a year now, I have been apart of One Village Coffee.
We are a group of people trying to help children through funding development in overlooked regions of the world.
We are a Coffee Roaster, providing sustainably certified coffee to the conscious customer.
We are an educator, storyteller and believer.
There is more to starting something than [...]

Films are at best art and at the least, entertainment and a form of recreation.
My friend Ed Travis who writes for Hollywoodjesus is the one who helped me realize films are just that, movies. they are not right or wrong they are about something, they have purpose, you can disagree with what [...]

I can not stop thinking about how good it felt after a sales meeting when a president of a local grocery store said, “I can not go with your coffee because It would be like shooting myself in the head.” What he was saying in my perspective is: you do not represent what I [...]