The Empty Tomb Filled with Love

Countless stories have been written about the miracle and marvel of Easter. An act of love beyond all acts of love. The single most important event in the life of Jesus and the single most important event in all of human history. Without this act of love, mercy, grace and generosity, Christianity is nothing more…

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Broken but Healing

I am a broken man. My spirit shattered and my soul suffering when I began to question everything I was taught in my youth and came to believe as an adult. Like pulling the proverbial loose thread, my whole world would unravel. Collapsing like a house of cards built on sand. Discovering and determining that…

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My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light

Way too much of my life has been about wanting to please people, particularly myself. Pursuing the approval or the admiration of others. Family and friends, supervisors and strangers. Wasted years of working overtime to inflate my own sense of self-worth by chasing things like standing, status, or stuff. A marathon we’ll never win because…

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A (Writer) Human Learning to Trust God

On a dark desert night in February 2022, I finally stopped running from God. Relinquishing my heart to God, as I embraced the peace that passes all understanding. A peace that had been elusive since my childhood. A peace that evaded me as a teenager, as I struggled with who God created. A peace that…

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Fear is Our Foe: Love is Our Liberator

Fear, like desire, is one of evils most powerful tools. An existential scourge on all of humanity beginning with in the beginning. An ancient garden deception leading to the disfigurement and distortion of God’s good world and the humans created to control and care for it; our ancestors and ourselves. Creatures in rebellion because genuine…

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Rose Colored Glasses: Only Jesus Saves

Like my false in faith in meritocracy, I used to believe that if I worked hard enough, I could overcome any situation particularly if it involved people that I love. Believing that I alone had the power to change the hearts of others. Blinded by my own heart’s desire with what I wanted, because of…

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How My Memoir Happened

Authors note. As I begin the publishing process to bring my memoir to market (fall 2025), this seemed like an ideal time to share some of the stories about how this occurred. It was another bright blue, cloud barren summer day in Vegas. The Mojave desert propelling its furnace of hot dry winds across the…

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Making Time About Something More Than Space

Like everything in Creation, God created us; you and me. Creatures crafted from clay and conceived through Divine breath. God commanding the nothingness to become somethingness. Life as we know it and a life that will be made known. Planted in paradise, humanity found itself amidst the Divine. A rupture in the relationship when man…

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Why Context is Critical and Intention is Everything

It’s a cold, gray and rainy day and I couldn’t be happier. This melancholy message might seem like a strange sentence to script, but I live in Vegas; and it’s been over 200 days since we’ve had rain; almost seven months. An ashen atmosphere dropping dust infused droplets on a hard and harsh habitat. Streetlights…

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