How Dead Are Ya…?

Galatians 2:20 (Amplified Bible) 20 I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and...

The Forest for the Trees…

When You Can’t See The Forest For The Trees… Transparently, “Documenting the Journey” today… It is what it is… I just got off the phone with my dad.  I’ve been kind of struggling with some things lately as it pertains to successes and perceived failures.  As the story...

Daddy, You Wanna Dance?!

Walking through the grocery store recently, my two-year-old son, Rocky just broke out and started dancing to whatever song was in his head…I love that about kids!  I love the willingness that children have to be and do whatever it is that they are feeling and to just...

People, Prayer and Provision

It was tough that first year of marriage.  Lisa and I were married for 6 months and then moved away from our families in Detroit to pursue ministry in Nashville.  We packed all of our stuff into a small U-haul and my dilapidated little Plymouth horizon (that first and...

Christianese 101

Because tone is difficult to relay in writing let me preface this with the understanding that this chapter is written partially “tongue in cheek” with a half smirk on my face for a majority of the time that I typed it.  Not that it doesn’t carry an element of truth,...