Category: Faith
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The Light Is Everywhere
Have you ever noticed how the deepest love songs always sound like they could be sung to God whether it was clearly the artist’s intent or not. My uncle pointed that out to me when I was a little kid and I have never forgotten it. A lot of times when I am trying to…
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The Foolishness and Weakness of God
On my knees in the prayer room at Andover Newton Theological School where I am attending seminary, I admitted to God how weak and poor in spirit I was. I am praying for the strength of mind, body, and soul so that I will be able to complete the six papers I have due in the…
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Know That You Are Loved
It takes nothing more than a little faith and a willingness to accept that the we are all a part of Love’s Mystery. We don’t need to understand it to receive it. God Loved us into Being. This means that we are not only objects of Love, our fundamental nature is a project of Love.…
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A Thief and a Liar (Shine)
Is there anything in your life that you would give absolutely everything to? Can you even imagine such a thing? There used to be a time when I felt like I could absolutely give myself to whatever I set my heart to. My heart was disciplined to Love and my belief was that I had…
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There’s Nothing Out There
“There’s nothing out there.” I heard those words so many times in my last year in the Air Force, that I felt like I was going to go crazy. What did that mean–“There’s nothing out there.”? If there was nothing out there, then what were we fighting for? What did people outside of the miltary do to survive? And…
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Road Trip With God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water – Full Circle
There’s no way I can completely explain to someone who is “uninitiated”, the things that were ministered to me for the next 19 hours because as it says in 1 Corinthians 2, “ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” …
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Road Trip with God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water, Part 3
Do you remember that part in The Matrix where Neo had to choose between the red pill or the blue pill? Well that was where I was in that hotel in the middle of nowhere–both figuratively and actually. I had to make a choice on whether I wanted to sleep or stay awake. While driving…
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Sometimes Words Aren’t Enough
Ever since we returned from Hawaii, I have been trying to put our experience into the perfect words for this blog. After struggling for weeks, I finally surrendered to the fact that I can’t and embraced that I’ll just have to do the best that I can. Words are funny things. They can be used…
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The Life You Were Born To Live
“Nice parking job,” are the first words I say to my friend Russ after not seeing him for almost thirteen years to the day. Several months ago we found each other again thanks to a Facebook Linkedin connection combo and now here we are at the Salt Lake International Airport. Has it really been 13 years? Why does it feel…
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There Are Two Ways To Burn Your Candle
There are two ways to burn a candle. Americans are strange. Despite our relative prosperity, we are one of the most emotionally depressed cultures on the planet. It’s been said that one of the main causes for our mental state is that we try to cram more activities into a 24 hour day than what…
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