Smell the Fries
This is not a call to stop and smell the roses…or the fries; this is about having an early warning sign to support my health and growth.
City & Soul
Our experience in the moment matters, and it’s a difficult stage because we’re often judged in the moment when we need to make a decision. Everyone has an opinion on what’s best for us, and at the same time, we have our own internal pressure to deal with because we don’t want to make mistakes either. We’re just haphazardly doing the best we can!
Disclosure Day
It’s worth asking yourself: how would your neighborhood, church, school, work, or family respond to the next big disruption? Even better, ask how you would respond when the news reports an unavoidable new truth.
Idols and Yellow Brick Roads
…It’s a grief because many of us have known for a long time that religion is behind the curtain, turning knobs and convincing billions throughout the ages that it’s great and powerful.
Your 80-90 Minutes
If years were like minutes, most of us, if we’re lucky, are given 80-90 minutes to live.
The Fence I won’t Jump
Discovering that faith, hope, and love have been tended beyond our old limits can be a source of joy. For some, crossing this fence is easy; for others, it’s hard because we've been conditioned to see truth as only thriving within our familiar religious or cultural borders.
Sandals in Snowdrifts
The qualities of grace are metaphorical pairs of sandals being used to walk through snowdrifts.
Doomsday Landing Part II
How do you respond If you know the end is coming? The answer is important. It matters, and it’s meaningful.
Where Others have Gone Before
There are times in life when we think we're unique, brave pioneers, but after some sober-minded reflection, we realize our journeys are rarely exceptional. Over time, others have joined us on this lonely highway of discovering new paths in the journey of life and faith.
Passport Privilege
Destinations are like books with pages of lessons for us to read. It's up to us how we let those stories shape us. We need to be unselfish with those lessons and apply them to our lives at home.
The Races We Quit
Longevity is admirable, but it can also become an idol that doesn't deserve as much attention as it gets. If you're running a metaphorical marathon ordained by religious or partisan adherence, take a breather, step off to the side, and take a good look at the race as it keeps going around and around in circles.
QE2 Billboard Preachers
To use someone’s name as they offered it is a meaningful validation of their journey; a billboard has never done this for me.
John MacArthur was Late
In many ways, we're all late to the party of grace. We all waste a lot of time building exclusive lists that include the names of people who we believe "get it" and pass our doctrinal purity tests.
Diamond Studded and Life Stunted
A bottle of water will run you about $1.29 at any convenience store. The cost of a diamond is between $2,500 to $18,000. How we perceive those values depends on our circumstances. These values are flipped in a desert.
Religion Management
Love is much more difficult because while it doesn't rely on the science of judgment, it follows the path of art. How do you know when you've achieved what you're intended to experience?
Route to Heaven
A Parable…
Wide is the freeway driven by many… A road chosen by multitudes of kings and queens who ride solo in steel carriages, separate from the rest of the world.
Traffic, Idols & Resistance
Do you really need Facebook, X, or TikTok? Can we live a life free of Amazon? Should Elon Musk have over 7000 satellites orbiting the Earth? Do partisan politics actually make you feel healthy?
Heretics in the Wild
…My friend was upset because my stance had opened the fence of a well-manicured lawn of cultural comfort. A culture with clear parameters of what is acceptable and what is not. I was allowing the wild to enter a domesticated region of belief.
The Blood of Vikings
You, my friend, are the legacy of survivors. The eyes that read these words contain DNA autographed by generations of survivors from all over the Earth. Your bloodline contains strength.
Jordan Travels New York
I love to travel and tell stories about what I’ve experienced. My dream job would involve both. With that said, I believe it’s always important to not wait for your job to provide an outlet to do the things you love. So, I do make travel content.