I’ve seen various iterations of this “I’ve lost my faith in humanity” “I’m losing my faith in humanity because..” People post this because some, a lot, or all human beings have disappointed them in the moment or all that day. When someone posts, “I’ve lost my faith in humanity”, I’m not surprised because we were…
Fun fact, I like role playing games. I like story telling, adventure, and laughing around a table with friends for a few hours. I’m always learning new things about my own faith and my faith journey by playing games and listening to others to who talk about games. In a recent video, game designer and…
Just recently, I received a letter from Youth Specialties, a national youth ministry organization that supports youth workers. The letter was a contract, spelling out my responsibilities as a speaker at their conference this year. It’s was one of my dream in life to speak at this conference because it had given so much to…
We only have one life. That’s it. One go around here on the planet and, like so many, including myself, we treat it like a stolen car. We ram into things, we put it at risk, we attain high measures of speed and we abandon it when the heat is on. The only thing worse…
Passion is a surface level emotion that acts like a valve to let off steam. There are terms like “an act of passion” when referring to an affair that just sort of happened or when someone kills someone due to a” fit of passion”. Both incidents are surface level reactions that happen in the moment.…
Welcome back! This is my fourth post in my attempt to convince you that you’re an artist. You may be a youth pastor, a small group leader, a bi-vocational youth worker who does plumbing on the side, or a volunteer youth worker. You…
We thought we were unique, we weren’t We thought we were original, we weren’t We thought we were the first, we weren’t We thought we were going to change everything, we didn’t We thought we had what it took, we didn’t We thought we were equipped for anything, we weren’t We thought we had the best…
Growing up… No one told me that I’d be second guessing everything at 49 No one told me it was ok to switch directions. No one told me its was ok to pursue something different. No one told me it was ok to have many dreams, not just one. No one told me that it…
“One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself.” ― Donald Grey Barnhouse Jesus challenged his disciples: Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever…
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. – Benjamin E. Mays The first tragedy of complacency is regret. No one…
