Confronting Fear
So I’m watching LOST with my kids. We’re starting from the beginning and we’re going to watch all the episodes together. In the early episodes, the main characters encounter the monster. It’s always in the shadows and is rarely seen. And it led to a great conversation about fear. My kids didn’t even see it, yet they were afraid. Their …
Loving Our Enemy
Speak it brother Tripp.
Question To Ponder
I have a friend who is a buzzkill when it comes to fun. It seems that no matter what we’re doing he seems to see life through a paradigm of what he can’t do, versus what he can do. I specifically notice that it revolves around pleasure. And it made me think. Why do you think some people are afraid …
Resonating With The Gospel
What do you do when something resonates inside of you, yet it’s not what you’ve grown up with? Over the weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to present Discovering The God Imagination to Missiongathering for their annual retreat. Some of the funnest people you will meet hang out in that community. And over and over again people came up to …
Taking A Stand
[RSS - See Embedded Video] – Note: This video contains strong language. Of all the stories in the Bible, the moment David takes a stand against the Philistines has always been one that deeply intrigued me. 8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a …
A Fearless Belonging
Perhaps no element of my faith has changed more over the last ten years than my understanding of belonging. Tony Jones recently highlighted a post by Jeff McSwain, who was fired by Young Life over what he describes as “theological differences.” “In November of 2007, I was dismissed by Young Life for what was termed “theological differences.” Since 2001, I …
Embracing The Adventurous Way
What are you running from that is meant to transform you? About eight years ago I made the intentional decision to face my fears. My mentor told me a very important story of a man who had been running from his fear for ages. My mentor had worked with this man for a while and finally told him to reimagine …
The Term Biblical
Recently I was watching a video on a church related topic and one of the people in the video kept saying, “These things must take place to be Biblical.” And something inside of me kept poking me in the side when he said that. So I sat with it for about six point two seconds and then it hit me. …
