Spirituality is and will always be thoughts and practices around a mystery. Much of the ancient ideas of the universe and person are no longer mysteries. Through time and science we have explained much of what was once unexplainable. The ancients used to create beautiful language and narratives to explain things that now we have … Continue reading Wrestling with God-The Evolution of Spirituality

I remember one Thanksgiving overhearing my father discuss how upset he was that he spent eighteen years raising his child how he wanted, teaching this child to see the world the way he does, and how upset it made him that he now is paying thousands of dollars to have some liberal university take away … Continue reading “All Lives Matter” and why my Political views changed.

  Yesterday I wrote a Christian response to how we talk about guns and gun control. My response was the Christian tradition of non-violence. I received numerous responses from people asking great questions and raising understandable concerns. Concerns about life, concerns about nation, and concerns about how we define self-defense. I would like to share … Continue reading The Violence of the Gospel. (Christian self-defense)

  There is an easy trend amongst faith-led people that I have been a part of and I have observed for years. I've often referred to it as "getting it before you get it." In truth this is likely the very thing that most non-Christians take issue with in those who follow Christ. Even if … Continue reading Getting it before you get it. (Spiritual arrogance)

    The summer after my Freshman year of High School I traveled with some friends to a camp in North Carolina. We’d been talking about Jesus and some things were just not adding up for me. “Really? God loves me? You’re actually going to try and tell me there’s some invisible being up there … Continue reading Experience, Tradition, and the Scriptures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9O9Akqaf-k&feature=youtu.be     As I was leaving Tallahassee to move to Austin I got online and wrote my farewell post. Here is what I wrote.   Tonight we are going to talk about community. The hardest part about leaving Tallahassee for me was leaving my community, my friends, the people I spent every day with. … Continue reading Community (Sermon)

  Right now my ministry is discussing what it means to be a Christian 24/7 outside of the church. Which is super interesting how necessary of a discussion this is to have. For many Christians it's tough defining a Christian life in the common workplace. It's tough making sense of your two lives. Life 1:The … Continue reading The Idolatry of God.