The other night I watched an indie-film adaptation of the short story book Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, by David Foster Wallace. I know very little about the author other than what I’ve read from wikipedia, but the movie closes with one of his own quotes that I have been chewing on ever since:
The truth will set you free but not until it is done [...]

(Originally posted at MentorMeProject.com … Join the conversation, here or there)
In his book, In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day, Mark Batterson talks about recognizing opportunity around us by positioning our hearts and mind to look for it through prayer. He uses the psychological example of how we never realize how many Pontiac Grand Ams (fill in your car here) are on [...]

I lead a Life Group/Community Group/Home Cell/Cell Group/ Splinter Cell/Jihadist Group for our church called “Inhabited.” The vision is “to invite God’s transforming power into our lives through various forms of personal worship” and the focus is on spiritual formation.  Ultimately, the “various forms of personal worship” point towards how we approach our relationship with the Holy Spirit, thus much of it centers around our [...]

A really short film…
I did this right at 5 years ago, and posted it here almost 2 years ago, but it’s time to revisit it for reasons outlined below. Unshaved, unkempt hair, glasses instead of contacts, overacting, goofiness, etc… There ain’t no shame in my game!
We’re talking about sharing our faith in our church and I showed this to my pastor just for kicks… now, [...]

As of this morning, I am officially a contributor of a project that I believe is of the utmost importance: the MentorMeProject. Where God takes the project itself is yet to be seen; there is a great heart behind the vision, and great potential behind the purpose, but as with everything in today’s internet culture, you never really know the effectiveness until it gets rolling.
But [...]

I need to preface this review by saying I have never read a book from cover to cover about parenting, much less specifically about fatherhood. I’ve been a father for over ten years now, but I admit that I have much to learn. So why haven’t I read a parenting book up to this point? I dunno. Maybe pride, maybe because I’ve done a pretty [...]

Back in May, I posted about Freedom and how our definition of it is a little off-kilter, at least as it relates to our Spiritual Freedom in Christ. An opportunity to preach at our church presented itself last month, and after brainstorming with the Pastor, we decided to run with a sermonized version of the Freedom by Design post.
Converting it to a message was fairly [...]

A while back, I moved my Logos Bible Study software from my wife’s laptop to my “new” personal laptop that a friend had given me.  Logos is a memory eater and heavy hitter on the processor. On my wife’s laptop it was almost unbearable to work with depending on what I wanted to do. Reading / searching is fine… breaking down Greek or cross-referencing several [...]

First, I read this in my RSS feed today from Ken Witcher… Good thought:
A cause that has that kind of impact is a cause worth dying for. But more importantly, it is a cause worth living for. Most of us don’t really live for the things we say we would die for.
– Ken Witcher
I think he is on to something there… stings but it’s [...]

Sunday Setlist? From Jeremy? What??
Yes, once again I have weaseled my way into a leadership type role on the worship team. I am not the worship leader, nor even a “co-leader,” but the leaders have asked me to co-lead with them from time to time. How often is still yet to be determined, but we seem to have good chemistry and I thoroughly enjoy working [...]