hope

  Worship is something I don’t understand. To worship something means “adoring reverence or regard, reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage.“   Well I’m trying to look at all of the things in my life that I “honor.” Friends, myself, what I want. I definitely honor that. I honor my [...]

  I love hope. I consider it an absolutely vital tool in life. Recently I’ve realized that, in order to really have hope, love is a prerequisite to it. They’re both equal parts of the equation. They must be intertwined to be fully effective; they could never harbor the same strength separately as they do [...]

This is just not right!” Tracy thought. “How am I supposed to worship God with that right in front of me?” Tracy sat completely distracted by the woman with short, spiky blue hair occupying the seat in front of her. She quickly processed the information—no makeup, short hair, blue-jean jacket, pierced, and tattooed—and delivered the [...]

One evening I gathered a small, rag-tag group of college students into my 680 square foot apartment with a few sitting in my kitchen due to a larger than expected turnout. I had invited a friend who runs an organization that fights human trafficking and runs shelters for women who have been trafficked and sold [...]

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A man’s faith in God will always surpass his own understanding. It’s the foundation of what faith is founded on: the realization that we won’t ever fully understand. Why is it so difficult for us to accept that perhaps we aren’t all that there is? Why is it so hard for us to believe there [...]

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Don’t doubt your faith, go all in.   I woke up this morning/afternoon and dove into the book of James and immediately was attracted to this verse in James 1:5-8   “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach and it will be given him. But [...]

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