I received this e-mail the other day from a good pastor friend of mine. It made me really think about who had shaped me through the years. My list was really really really long. I didn’t have time to write about everyone so I simply responded with the first few…

About four to five years ago I began a journey that did not have much clarity or direction. All I knew was that something was off in my life and I needed to get to the bottom of what that was. Even though I was a minister, I felt as…

Earlier today I posted a tweet that read, “GOD – I would rather know Him than about Him. That’s why I traded my theology for theognosis. I got some interesting feedback on that comment so I decided to post my entire thought process behind it. This was a blog I…

It is ironic that this is going to be the blog to follow my previous post. In my previous blog I talked about how I am loved. Being loved by others has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember. I have no question that…

Questions? I am 27 years old and my life thus far has been full of so many questions. There is so much I don’t understand. The more I learn the more I realize I don’t know. To be honest… The questions have been overwhelming me lately. I feel as though…

Ouch. It hurts. The pain is unbearable. The ones I have loved don’t understand. Worse still, they tell me, “I don’t.” Pain so deep no words can describe. Pain so deep, but no where to hide. Naked, My thoughts are exposed. No one can walk with me. I am alone…

I was having a discussion with a good friend of mine the other day. I told him that I was trading in my theology for theognosis. He had actually read my earlier blog called “Jesus, Mary, and Joe Smith.” He asked me to clarify the last paragraph of the blog….

To be honest I do not want to write this blog, but if feel like it lays the ground work for my next several blogs to come. So please forgive me in advance if it is dry and boring and it doesn’t make much sense.  + + + + +…

The awe striking reality that is God, has been reduced in so many of our minds to a small formula that we think we have figured out. God is God and we are not. So much wander and power surrounds Him. Who am I to try and diminish His reality…