Counterculture. Faith. Love.
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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 [...]
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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: ” [...]
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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 [...]
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This song chokes me up every time as I think about God as a strong tower standing tall in the storm. Unwavering. A never collapsing tower that I get to run to and hold on to when nothing makes sense. Here is the actual music video that would not allow me to display. Enjoy this song as you read [...]
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Here are points 3-5 in answering yesterday’s question, “Who put YOU in charge?” 3. There is no other national voice doing or saying what I am. This is not to say that there are not other people around the country talking about this topic! I am not being cocky with this statement. There are plenty [...]
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In light of the last few posts and the string of passionate comments in those posts, I want to talk about a question I get asked a lot: “Who put YOU in charge?” Sometimes I get that in a completely sarcastic tone, sometimes an angry tone, sometimes it’s just a genuine query. I’ve never really [...]
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Forgiveness can be a tricky thing. Many people, including myself, are able to talk about forgiveness as an important task in order to move on. Some people, not-so-much including myself, are also able to actually do it in their mind, heart and Spirit instead of just vocally forgiving the person(s) who have wronged them. A [...]
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In the last post I talked about my belief that the label “quiet time” should actually be called (and lived out as) “spending time with God” throughout the entirety of a day—due to the pressure (internal and external) that is put on a person to feel or hear something significant in a designated time slot [...]
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Just a dude trying to learn how to live and love. 
