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Hoping after Recognition
Deep within me there is a desire for recognition. I’m not exactly sure where it comes from. Maybe it comes from seventh grade when I was cut from the basketball team. Or maybe eight grade when I was...
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When you’re suffering wrong
A couple of weeks ago I was giving my son a bath. It was a bubble bath – because he’s three and asks for one every night. Of course, when he gets out of the tub at the end of the bath he is a sudsy...
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False Futures of Ideologies
I’ve never considered myself a feminist. I still don’t. I cringe with a lot of people at the term because of the connotation associated with it: brash women who hate men, never smile, and want to...
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It’s Baby Jesus
We are very intentional about keeping Jesus at the center of our family’s Advent experience. Let me be really honest, my wife is much better at this than I am. Last year we bought our son his own...
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The Disgrace of Infertility
This Christmas I preached through the Christmas story as told by Luke. For all the times I’ve read the story, I’ve never noticed this small line hidden in the middle of the Christmas narrative. But...
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Beggars Along the Road
When you are young, you try and pretend that you are someone you are not. Part of that is because you don’t really know who you are. But part of that is you are trying to be someone cool. Personally,...
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Pregnant with Hope
For the past three years my wife and I have struggled with infertility. It’s actually been longer than that, since we struggled before our son was born. But it has been three years since we started...
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The Surprise of Judgment
One of the surprises, for me, of becoming a blogger is the people I get to “meet.” While I haven’t physically met Joshua, he has become a friend through our interactions on social media, email, and...
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The Church Isn’t the Destination
When I was in middle school my family drove from Michigan to Wyoming on a two-week camping trip. Somewhere along the way we began noticing signs for Wall Drug. I vividly remember a sign alerting us to...
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Removing the Flag is a Start, But it Won’t Kill the Monster
To be clear, the confederate flag should come down. In the wake of the shootings in Charleston that killed nine, it is absolutely horrific to think that both the American flag and the South Carolina...
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What I Need to Hear
There is so much noise in the world today. Especially on the internet. Everyone has an opinion, and everyone can share their unfiltered thought with the world in an instant (I realize the irony here)....
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Wholeheartedness: A Guest Post from Dr. Chuck DeGroat
Today on the blog I have my friend Dr. Chuck DeGroat. Chuck is the Associate Professor of Pastoral Care at Western Theological Seminary. Chuck is a wise soul, someone who plumbs the depths of the...
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