The books The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman and His Needs Her Needs by Willard Harley have been very helpful to a lot of couples. I’ve read them both, they’ve both been very helpful to my wife’s and my marriage, and I recommend them both as helpful tools for you. There is a subtle […]
4 BEST AWFUL SONGS OF ALL TIME!!! VOTE FOR WHO’S #1
one, or how else would we be inspired to compose such glorious music in his name? In no particular order, here are the 4 best songs of all time. We will be doing each at Crossroads Church this Sunday (including choreography) so learn them now so you can come sing along. Please vote in the comment section on who is #1…
How to Overcome Anger Problems
I’ve struggled with anger most of my life and have been encouraged to have made some recent discoveries that have been very helpful. While many people’s anger is toward other people, i.e. frustration, retaliation, and revenge, mine is typically directed at inanimate objects. I drop a plate and it breaks; I get angry. I throw […]
Doing justice without the burnout – “Pursuing Justice” Book Review
It’s hard for me to read Christian books on social justice. I love the content and the biblical accuracy of what they present, but I’ve consistently found myself struggling with guilt, compassion fatigue, and despair (that there are SO many problems, how can I solve them?) in my attempts to study social justice in recent […]
Weekend Cheese: Cheetos Jesus, a.k.a. “Cheesus”
After a week of digesting heavy posts about heaven and hell, how to survive Christmas, and questioning if Jonah and the whale is fact or fiction, some of you need a good dose of the lighter side of religious cheese. Brace yourself. Prepare to be amazed. This is religious cheese in its most raw, most literal […]
Heaven & Hell. Book review of C.S. Lewis’s “The Great Divorce”
What I like best about The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis is how he makes my mind imagine that the afterlife will actually be something tangible. While the concepts of heaven and hell are very real to most of us on a theological level, we are typically hard pressed to live with the eternal perspective […]