September 25, 2018

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A side worth taking

Our culture has become incredibly polarizing in SO many areas, politics and religion chief amongst them. Both genres have so many things to KNOW, and opportunities to disagree. As a person whose life is dedicated to spreading the latter, I have found myself to be perhaps a dying breed, a moderate, in both areas. It is my experience that balance in life is important. That EACH side is capable of, and actually does have valid points, ideas, and opinions, and…

I still believe

A few weeks ago I started a new group of messages at our church called centered around the idea of belief. In the “biz” we call this a series. This particular series is called “I still believe.” Other than the incredible opportunity to use the mid 2000’s Jeremy Camp song that plagued Christian radio stations for many years (it’s actually a decent song, just overplayed), I wanted it to represent a feeling of hope I have about the things that…

A guy on a couch

I was sitting in the front seat of my 1982 Oldsmobile 98 regency, the day the world changed. I wasn’t the best of college students at that time, and I was trying to decide whether I wanted to grab McDonald’s breakfast and go home, or attend my next class which I believe was speech. For some reason I had KTIS (the local Christian station) on the radio (which I almost never do), and when I turned the engine over I…