Growing up in the church and being a Pastor I was constantly bombarded with catch phrases or hot words that made people sound like they knew what they were talking about and or were on the cutting edge. I was often left in the dark when it came to understanding what they meant and the word “culture” was a big …
Old man and the Sea
I love reading. As long as its not required, assigned or non-fiction. I love stories. I love the power that words on a page have to fuel the imagination. This love of reading was formed in High School under my teacher Mrs. Coon. There are a few things I remember about her and that class. She was a petite package …
The Missing Lego
First thing you need to understand about me is I am a man. I compartmentalize my thinking and am task/goal oriented. Throw in a bit of OCD and your starting to get the picture of who I am. This puts me in an emotionally unstable place in life. Im not crazy and don’t need meds but it does affect me …
An Easter Reality
This morning as I was checking out the social media, it seemed like there was some unwritten rule that everyone and their mom had to write an easter post or blog entry. I found myself not wanting to for the sheer fact it would seem to just get lost in the insane shuffle of our social feeds among the other …
Trials into Triumphs
I grew up in a traditional religious home. It had its great things and its bad things. One of the biggest things in the pentecostal upbringing I faced was the enemies attacks. This left us always thinking that the bad things in life that happened was an attack of the enemy. Although I believe the enemy does attack and strategize …
#Winning
As I write a lot of my blogs I look back at the process of revelation I am having on where I am at and who God is in the midst of my brokenness. I write because I process out loud. Im a verbal thinker. My hope in being transparent about were I am/was and what Ive gone through is …
American Christians should be ashamed…
I once heard a renowned Ugandan Pastor say that America would never experience revival because we try to fit God into our schedule rather than our schedule into God. I whole heartedly believe this… However this week I awoke to an even greater tragic realization about American Christians, myself included. This week a Jordanian pilot was burned alive by ISIS. …
No, the new yes
If you have ready any of my previous writing a few things are apparent. One, Im a writer but not a grammatical genius. I have run on sentences that rival the great wall. Two, I don’t write puffy encouragement pieces that will illicit singing birds and pictures of daffodils. When I write I write as a way to process. Sometimes …
Dear Church People…
Preface: Originally I was not going to include this preface, but after letting this sit a while I realize that this letter could potentially hurt some of the people we have met along 10 years of ministry and that is not my heart. We have had some amazing times with amazing people that we are still in relationship with today. …
My Addiction
My name is Joshua and Im an addict. For the past 10 years Ive been addicted to ministry. If you’ve read my last blog you are probably thinking I have some major issues. From detox to addiction I seem to be on a 12 step program. In a lot of ways I am. A spiritual cleansing of past garbage from …
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