Counterculture. Faith. Love.
From the category archives:
Here are a few more videos from people who attended all of my sessions at Cornerstone Festival 2009 throughout the week. Here are some of their lessons learned:
This video is “The Skeptic”:
This video is “The Humbled Brother”:
This video is “The Most Encouraging Person in the World”:
This video is “Just Chillin”:
Just another way The Marin Foundation is [...]
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I just started reading the book of Ezekiel (as you can tell by My One Sentence Bible from today) on my yearly trek to read the Bible from cover to cover. To me, the overarching principles of the book of Ezekiel speak loud and clear about what it means to live a faithful Christian life—to [...]
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Yesterday was Black Friday and I got up at 3:20am so I could go shopping and get everyone I loved something really special. I want to briefly give you my Philosophy of Money and Spending:
I give more to the Lord than I can “afford” and then I spend the rest blessing those really special people [...]
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This is a powerful story, and an unfortunate example of what happens to many of our youth in today’s Christian culture. But look what happens then, when there is a direct intentionality to bridge building – and look how our youth respond to a message they are just yearning to hear.
Is it hard to be [...]
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It’s great to be back home after speaking four times in the last four days in Atlanta at the National Youth Workers Convention. These past four days have been very humbling for me, and such an encouragement with numbers of people coming up to me and saying some variation of the following:
“Over the past year [...]
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Last week I spent 2 days in Cedar Rapids, Iowa speaking to the Linn County Association of Evangelicals. Like no where else that I have ever traveled around the world have I seen such a powerful Association of local churches banding together for the greater good of doing Kingdom work. Although ‘Evangelical’ is in their [...]
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Recently there have been multiple references to me by Christians about the ‘gay agenda.’ I want to make one thing very clear:
Everyone has an agenda. I don’t care who you are or what you’re about. You have an agenda – Christian, gay or whatever. And the broader community or population of people you affiliate yourself [...]
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Yes, you read that right. I believe that God is tearing away church influence. Let me explain.
This morning while I was spending time with God I was reading the book of Jeremiah and came across something I thought extremely profound:
“2“Stand at the gate of the LORD’s house and there proclaim this message:
” ‘Hear the word [...]
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Earlier this year I got to meet a very well known New York Times Bestselling author who is a Christian, published by a Christian publishing house, who writes about Christian themes. I’ve sat on this post for some time because I wasn’t sure what to do with this information. I was going to call him out [...]
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The following was originally posted on January 29, 2009. This past weekend I had some very, very close people to me talk to me about some deep secrets and fears in their lives that are tearing them apart. In lieu of that, I thought it was important to put this post out there again.
Here is the [...]
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Just a dude trying to learn how to live and love. 
