It's a little bittersweet... recording our last series! Hey friend, This week marks the start of the final series on the podcast — four episodes I'm calling Discerning God's Will: Wayfinding to the Good Life. My discernment process for this next season as a church planter came straight from this same process. I can attest to the fact that God can transform our desires and decisions in His will, because this new chapter isn't one that I saw coming--and honestly, didn't think it would every...

Prefer fewer emails? Click here to stay subscribed but stop receiving monthly updates. It was an underwhelming hiking trail, by every measure. The path was mostly gravel; we could see the parking lot nearly the whole distance; and as soon as we entered the "forest" we were subject to merciless dive-bombing but all manner of black flies, gnats, and mosquitoes. But I had insisted that we had to get out into nature before arriving at our destination, and I had found the "hike" on a map, and I...

Prefer fewer emails? Click here to stay subscribed but stop receiving monthly updates. Feeling all the feels...is impossible. Just when we started feeling so good again (sun! flowers! summer coming!) May hits us like a freight train. And it's a freight train barreling out of control toward our souls, filled with complicated things like Mother's Day, birthdays, end of school hooplas, teacher appreciation, graduations, awards assemblies and all the other life stuff that keeps life-ing us while...