The Secret To Living A Defiant Joy: An interview with Margaret Feinberg

For any of you who have had a loved one struggle through cancer or maybe you yourself have been through it, one of the authors that I really enjoy reading, Margaret Feinberg, has been through a brutal fight with cancer and shares the unexpected lessons she discovered along the way in her new book and Bible study […]

1st Church of the Broken: Excerpt from the Intro

We often treat our churches like we would the place where we get our haircut or the restaurant that the service wasn’t that great. If we don’t like it, we leave, never look back and look for the next service, the next small group and the next worship experience. Let me be perfectly clear, you […]

New Year. New Goals.

Here we go people. 2015 is here. Its time for New Year’s resolutions. I know, I know. You don’t do resolutions. We gotta have goals though right? As the old saying goes “Aim at nothing and you’ll hit it every time.” What goals are you setting for yourself in 2015? One goal that I have […]

The Wedge in My Marriage

In my previous post, we talked about the struggle of taking care of your marriage when you have young kiddos. It’s tough when you have rug rats and you want to have a great marriage. Our view of what a great marriage looks like and our current reality don’t match up. If you aren’t careful, […]

A Word for Young Families: ImPERFECT

There’s a word for young families that are raising young kids and trying to take care of their marriage. You may think that that word is XANAX…or SURVIVAL but the word I’d like to offer young families is better than that and I hope a little freeing. The word is…”IMPERFECT”. Here’s what I mean by […]

3 Reasons Why Becoming a “None” Might Be a Good Choice for You

I remember pretty vividly sitting on the floor, beside my grandmother’s bed in her house without a soul in the room…other than mine of course. I had my black NKJV Bible cracked open to 1 or 2nd Kings. I was reading about an epic battle that Israel was involved in. I remember closing the Bible […]

Not a Cat Person

I would not consider myself a “cat person” and yet I have two cats, my family is currently Jonesing for a third. I’m not sure how this happened. Okay, I do remember. When I married my beautiful wife, Jennifer, a cat came with the deal. I happily accepted. What I didn’t realize at the time […]

Honest Hypocrisy

I’ll be really honest with you, I can’t believe I’m looking at houses right now. Its a long story but after living in the house that we are currently renting, we’ve been told that the owner is coming back and we have to look for a new house. We were pretty shocked initially, mainly because […]

Where there’s fire, let’s make smoke

I hate getting stabbed in the back. Let’s get real, I don’t like getting stabbed in the front either. Getting stabbed in general is not a good thing. I’m speaking metaphorically of course. Now that we’re on the topic, I don’t want to literally get stabbed anywhere. I wanted to make sure I was clear […]

Houston Nine-Nine

When I got my first full time ministry gig it was in Houston. We found a pretty quaint (code for small) and cozy (also code for small) home right off of highway 6 in West Houston. I’ve told quite a few people that we didn’t really live in the hood, but we weren’t far removed […]