Road Trip With God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water – Full Circle
Light/Dark - It's All In Me 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, “...
View Article7 Reasons Why You Should Never Time Travel
Well, for any of you who have read this blog in the past, you know that I haven’t written anything new in several months. I have made attempts, but was unable to complete any because I was too busy...
View ArticleKnow That You Are Loved
Are you open? This Thanksgiving I had an epiphany that can potentially change the way I function in this world. I asked myself the question, “How would the world be different if everyone knew that...
View ArticleWinning and Losing
Sometimes When you Win you Lose Matthew 13:12 – For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Have you...
View ArticleGod Is Beyond Belief
It has been my experience that God is more than my thoughts and beliefs about God. There was once a time where I thought that I did pretty much everything God wanted me to do. I thought God would...
View ArticleNever Eat Your Own Puke
It doesn’t matter if you are not into Christianity, Judaism, or any of the other religions out there, you should do yourself a favor and at least read Proverbs from the Hebrew Bible. Solomon is...
View ArticleReflection on the Body of Christ and God’s Mysterious Ways
Jesus looks like the one looking at Jesus Ever since returning from China I have been reflecting on the Pauline metaphor of the Body of Christ. Meeting Christians in China was an amazing experience....
View ArticleComing Out of the Dark…
Somewhere in time there is a part of me that I visit frequently. He is in a dark room and he feels alone. He is living a lie. He believes that he is separate from God and from everything else in...
View ArticleWhere Are You?
One of the words that freaks out many of my fellow liberal Christians and people abused by religion or even the people who qualify themselves as “spiritual but not religious” more than anything is...
View ArticleToward Unfiltered Consciousness
This morning I found myself stuck on The Root. For those of you who have never heard of it, it is similar to The Huffington Post, but with articles that are more tailored to the interests of a...
View ArticleGod Is Beyond Belief
It has been my experience that God is more than my thoughts and beliefs about God. There was once a time where I thought that I did pretty much everything God wanted me to do. I thought God would...
View ArticleNever Eat Your Own Puke
It doesn’t matter if you are not into Christianity, Judaism, or any of the other religions out there, you should do yourself a favor and at least read Proverbs from the Hebrew Bible. Solomon is...
View ArticleAnd out of the Silence…Marisa Tomei
What the heck is her name? “Marisa Tomei! Hallelujah! Marisa Tomei! Thank you Jesus! Marisa Tomei! Now I can eat. Amen.” What you just read was an approximation of my thoughts just before dinner...
View ArticleSinging Down the Road to Redemption
As the cast stood in the line preparing to enter the sanctuary, I could almost feel myself getting younger and the space getting narrower. Was it getting darker or was it just me? Where did that...
View ArticleBreaking Through Before Breaking Free
As I prepared my sermon for this Palm Sunday, I felt this sinking feeling. At first, I couldn’t figure out what it was. The truth is I’ve never been a holidays person. Even as a child I asked, “Do we...
View ArticleThere is No Competition
I might be going through a midlife crisis (MLC). A word that etymologically means, “the point at which change must come, for better or worse.” I remember that whenever I heard about MLCs growing up, I...
View ArticleBeing With God
God is the ground of being, being-itself; who concerns us ultimately. Thus, God is our ultimate concern. — Paul Tillich I’ll be honest with you and say that on a weekly if not daily basis, I find...
View ArticlePower Beyond Measure Part 4
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. — Marianne Williamson One day my dad called me out of nowhere and...
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