Rantings of a Jesus-loving, raving lunatic
1. Being a part of a ministry that is singularly obsessed with reaching teens for Christ through teens.
2. The privilege of being surrounded by team members who are as passionate about our mission as I am.
3. Meeting youth leaders who work for the real payday…changed lives.
4. Donors/volunteers/champions who are owners of [...]
This week I had a chance to surf New Smyrna Beach, Florida, the shark bite capital of the world. And I use the word “surf” loosely. It took me three hours to get up twice. But I got up. And much to my dismay I didn’t see one shark.
But that’s the crazy things about [...]
After fourteen exhausting/exhilarating hours at Disney/Epcot with my wife/kids I have a few thoughts about Walt/friends. Here they are:
1. Disneyworld is an amazing place. There is no other amusement park in the world like Disney when it comes to creating sheer wonder and delight in little and big kids alike (even 43 year old [...]
Last week I was leading my four year old daughter through a bedtime prayer. It went like this:
Me: “Dear God,”
Kailey: “Dear God,”
Me: “Thank you for a beautiful day.”
Kailey: “Thank you for a bootiful day.”
Me: “Thank you for all your blessings.”
Kailey: “Thank you for all your blessings.”
Me: “Thank you for [...]
This training session is by my good friend Lane Palmer. He writes Soul Fuel for Dare 2 Share every week and leads the Bible department at Valor Christian Academy. I met Lane when we were in high school and I was visiting his youth group to train them how to share their faith. We started [...]
Thank you Lord for pain.
Through it you draw me closer to you. By it you drive me to my knees in prayer. From it you form in me the image of Christ.
Pain is a friend that I welcome with outstretched hands and open arms. Although he hurts me I am still glad to see him. [...]
Amy Carmichael was a missionary to India in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s. Read this moving and convicting dream that she had about the church’s reponsibility to rescue the lost. Powerful.
“The tom-toms thumped straight on all night and the darkness shuddered round me like a living, feeling thing. I could not go to [...]
I was raised listening to Michael Jackson’s music. It was the dirty secret I kept locked in my fundamentalist closet growing up. From ABC to Bad to Thriller to Billy Jean I moonwalked time and time again to Jackson’s music in my basement room across the concrete floors.
Michael taught this white boy how to [...]
When I was in 3rd grade at Brown Elementary School in North Denver I got in trouble for doing something very weird as I walked down the hallway between classes. I was shuffling along with my eyes turned downward, riveted on the white tile floors beneath my feet. Both of my arms were locked rigidly [...]
In case you haven’t heard Mark Sanford, the Republican governor of South Carolina, was caught by his wife in an adulterous affair with a woman from Argentina. To be honest, it makes me cringe when I hear his qualifying explanations and wierd apologies. It is obvious that he is still “in love/lust” with this woman [...]
