Our Southern Kent campus is beginning a weekly prayer time next week. The elders, who will be leading the prayer time, are going to lead the congregation through a corporate praying of the Lord’s Prayer. At their request, I put together a phrase by phrase breakdown of how to pray the Lord’s prayer [...]
I’ve written previously that I think that I believe that people, in their search for significance, ask three main questions. Who am I? Why am I? Do I belong? They are questions of identity, purpose and community.
Recently, I started watching the show Heroes. It’s an awesome show. But what I find most interesting is that, [...]
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With less than 48 hours left in New Orleans, I’ve been reflecting on all that I’ve seen and experienced this summer. I’m not even sure I have the words to describe the devastation this city has experienced. We started working on the home of Matt yesterday and I spoke with him tonight. He told me [...]
This summer in New Orleans has been great, but it has also been very difficult. Even emotionally draining. I’ve felt lost that for all the work I do for God, why aren’t I experiencing the joy of Christ? The answer was revealed to me by Donald Miller in his book, Blue Like Jazz. This book [...]
Last week I wrote, concerning community, “People are always looking, always searching, in the hopes of finding a place where they are welcomed, accepted and liked. People long to belong.†I wrote that as I was on a plane flying from Orlando to Philly. On the way back, I flipped through this [...]
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In my years with Young Life, I attempted to be a faithful student of adolescent culture. Speaking with teens, I found they were constantly driven by two questions. But I believe that it’s more than just teenagers who ask these questions. They are the questions that drive all of us.
The first question [...]
