I just returned from my first trip to the Pacific Northwest to visit my best friend. Katie moved to Portland, OR this past November after reading the book by Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts. Well, if you ask her, she’ll tell you that was 70 percent of the reason she moved there. I remember the process of her deciding to move there. There were moments of anxiety and fear as the reality set in...

I didn’t turn on the news at all yesterday so I didn’t find this out until today. Five people were killed in Colorado yesterday, 3 in Colorado Springs in the parking log of a church and 2 who were at a YWAM base in Arvada. We live in a country where we are free to practice whatever religion we choose and I know that most of the time I take this for granted. All five of these people were out to serve...

When I turned 28 I said I had one goal. That goal was to find someone in which I could fall in love. I wanted to meet a girl who loves God more than anything and would eventually love me out of that love for Him. Turning 28 isn’t some huge milestone but for some reason I made it out to be. I allowed myself to believe that being single at 28 somehow reflected who I was as a person and how I related...

So… yesterday I call up my friend Ryan after reading over a scripture that stumped me. I asked him to read the verses so that we could meet up later to have a beer and discuss what I had read earlier. Later that night we met up and the games began. We read and re-read the verses and started talking about it and what it might mean. We talked about how it related to God’s character and whether or...

A new, yet very dear friend of mine said I should start a blog. I started one a couple years ago and never really used it but am not motivated to try again. Let me first say that I’m not that great of a writer. You won’t find fancy words and more than likely there will be a few grammatical errors. I will do my best to be clear and concise but when my emotions take over I’ll write whatever...

For Lent, I decided to give up all beverages except water. I messed up immediately on my trip to Utah where the first morning of the trip I downed two glasses of orange juice with breakfast. The funny thing is, I didn’t realize it until that night when I was offered some wine with dinner and I declined since I was fasting. It then immediately hit me that I had failed earlier that morning so I decided...