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We Need Leaders Who Have Experienced Brokenness

To be broken by God is to be made useful. It’s to have your independence and need to control stripped away until all you have left to offer is a wil...

Dealing with junk in our lives

Could You Love a Serial Killer?

Everyone feels revulsion toward serial killers like the notorious Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Berkowitz shot and killed six people and wounded...

Dealing with junk in our lives

Leaving the Weight of Our Losses Behind Us

I just got back from my seventh hike of the Camino de Santiago yesterday. One of the highlights for a peregrino (pilgrim) is arriving at the Cruz ...

Dealing with junk in our lives

How I Learned to Beat Burnout

Today I'm flying to the Dominican Republic, a place where I've experienced abundant life as a young man pursuing a dream, and also burnout along the w...

Dealing with junk in our lives

A Christmas Story From This Morning

I've never been any good at stuffing Christmas stockings. This morning, I went to the salvage store to buy some stocking stuffers for Karen ...

Dealing with junk in our lives

If You're Broken, There's a Way Out: Get to Brokenness

My own messy life left me with two options: Cover it up - build some work-arounds that allow me to schlepp along. Go through the pain and see ...

Dealing with junk in our lives

Dealing With Your Food Issues

This morning I woke up, began to pray and journal, and then thought, "I should get some tea going." So I went to the kitchen. Then I saw the raw veget...

Dealing with junk in our lives

But What If It Hurts?

Around the nation and in many parts of the world, people have begun the new year by fasting. God asks us to fast. Jesus said that his disciples would ...

Dealing with junk in our lives

The Gift of Self-Awareness

Several years ago, my friend Steve had a job as a business executive. His slide into a life of drugs was breathtakingly quick. He used drugs and when ...

Dealing with junk in our lives

How to Survive When You're Wrecked

I've started blogging more regularly along with a community of fellow ragamuffins over on Wrecked. Please join us over there. Here'...