Friday, December 08, 2023

From Fatigue to Fascination

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 From Fatigue to Fascination As humanity we have become accustomed to fatigue. Even spiritually. Ministry fatigue defines the life of many p...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Recovering What We've Lost

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Recovering What We've Lost (Transcribed from the podcast) Is it possible that we've been living far below what God intended for us f...
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Monday, November 22, 2021

It All Began In A Barn

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It all began in a barn.  And the Midwest is full of them. My Dad’s first job was in a barn. The revival that lit a fire of the Gospel for ma...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Masked, Canceled, and Woke (Transcribed from the podcast)

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Does the grace of Jesus have anything to say about the hot button issues of the day? Absolutely it does. So today we’re going to take a fres...
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Sunday, May 24, 2020

The Price of Unleaded Happiness

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Wander into Lange’s Cafe in Pipestone, MN, and you’ll see the same sight I grew up with. A diner filled with old farmers talking about all t...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Sorry

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I wish that word had more power. Like the power to heal a heart like the person saying it wished it did. The power to stop the hurting forev...
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What's wrong with what's wrong?

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What's wrong with "What's wrong?" Ever hear people ask the question, "What's wrong?" whenever something'...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

The Communion of Breath

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The origin of man as Spirit is in the heart of God, and the birth of man as a physical being is in the breath of God. Man was born in a face...
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Thursday, May 30, 2019

A Different Take on Balancing Life and Ministry

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From my perspective, the whole concept of balance IS stress. Go stand on a fencepost. Feel relaxed? Here’s another way to look at it. Take ...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Stir it Up

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I'm not starting this with anything in particular to write.  It's just that I haven't written in awhile so I'm going to st...
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Monday, January 29, 2018

Agape

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If you dare to squint the eyes of your heart to see the good in people, you may get blinded by the twisted, the broken, the parched, the fra...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Hard Lessons

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Hard lessons from 26 years of marriage that I want my kids to know. (1 minute 26 seconds of read time)  You're going to do some thing...
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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Life in Austin, Texas Was Like...Nicky the Stranger

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(I never want to forget what it was like to live in the weirdest city in America. Austin will always be a home to me. This was in 2014.) A...
Friday, July 14, 2017

A New Covenant Clarity

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Everything from the Old Covenant needs to be interpreted through the New Covenant. In the New Covenant we have 1 Corinthians 13 (Love keeps ...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Busyness

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"Busyness is artificial significance." Bill Johnson. Busyness isn't the cure for laziness. To me, laziness isn't a lack ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Why I Believe

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I believe in God because of Jesus. I believe in Jesus because of the resurrection. And I believe in the resurrection because of the discipl...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Interwoven in Christ

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Col 2:2-3 Paul’s outlining the priorities for what he wants to see in every believer and every church here in this verse and it’s staggeri...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Deep Lessons

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We learn some of the deepest lessons in some of the darkest valleys. But we don't often realize what we've learned in the valley of ...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

What Pain Sounds Like

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The Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit! But for many their experience with Christianity as a religion is not...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

What's the Point of Prayer and Fasting?

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Disciplines like prayer and fasting don't make God. They make me. There's no arm twisting or begging of God in these things. They...
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