I became a believer 29 years ago. On December 23rd.
This week I was transported back to that time. It was an incredibly personal and intimate week with God. He allowed me to remember how preciously Jesus had revealed Himself to me. So, I’ve tried to capture a sense of the world before His appearing. I [...]
I was with some friends, Chris and Cindy Beall, in Oklahoma last week for about 5 hours. I got up in the morning, got on the plane, landed, rented the car, drove to their place, hung out, got back in the car, got back on the plane, landed, drove home. Whew! It was a really [...]
I’ve got issues. Seriously, I do stuff I don’t want to do. And the stuff I want to do? I often don’t do it. Seems like something Paul wrote about. Anyhow, I have come to realize that a lot of this stems from hiding things. When I do things in secret that’s [...]
For the last year or so I have been looking at all things spiritual through a lens of grace. Obviously that has something to do with where I work—we’re sort of in the grace business. But it also has to do with where I am in the natural progression of my own journey. I don’t [...]
First of all, an update on Bo’s Café; our friends Wayne and Mick from Windblown came into town this week to help us polish the manuscript. We sat around the conference table from 8:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the afternoon and we got so much done! These guys have such good instincts [...]
As some of you know from reading this blog over the past few months, we have finished writing our latest book and we are starting into final edits. Some of you also know that we were set to self publish when at the last minute Windblown Media (publisher of the best seller The Shack) [...]
Usually, it seems, the most compelling testimonies of grace’s beauty and power come not from writers, speakers, theologians or professors but through those clumsily learning to depend upon an utterly, astounding God. The following is a Facebook excerpt from a 22-year old, Matthew Petersen, thanking his past high school pastor, Jason Ellis, for teaching him [...]
Over the Thanksgiving break I read the Pentateuch. I know, that sounds like a strange choice for holiday reading; but, I am trying to read the Bible cover to cover between now and the new year. I have read the whole Bible before (with the possible exception of Nahum) but never from front to back. [...]