Authenticity

An open post for my fellow former members of Hope Community Church

If August 21st marks one of the best days of my life, my wedding anniversary, then August 24th marks one of the worst days of my life, the church business meeting from hell. I was the youth pastor of Hope Community…

Why Feb 1st is when you should make your New Year’s resolutions

Many people fall into either one of three categories when it comes to New Year’s resolutions.

There are those who year after year enthusiastically commit to various audacious goals only to…

The pain of miscarriage and the goodness of God

Devastating.

When talking of miscarriage, I’m not sure if there is a better word that can be used to describe what you’re going through. Every person I’ve ever met who has gone through the experience uses this word when…

Everyone Mad Libs

The only people who don’t like Mad Libs are the people who don’t know what they are. And Nazi’s.

So for all of the unfortunately misinformed, and for all of the short evil dictators with little mustaches out there, this is the idea behind Mad Libs:

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt’s search for the myth

An elderly cerebral hemorrhage survivor got in my face

Muscles on a Plane

Just got home a bit ago from Southport, NC. My Southwest flight was an early one, taking off at 7:10am (6:10am to my internal…

Traveling corner to corner

Heading home to Chicago today after a week in California. Great week for work, and it’s been awesome to have my family along with me for the ride. We fell in love with San Francisco! What an amazing city!