TweetOn July 17, 2003 (my 16th birthday), Donald Miller broke onto the national Christian publishing scene with his spiritual memoir: Blue Like Jazz. Because of Miller’s strikingly simplistic, candid, and self-exposing style, a million readers (myself included) soon found themselves wondering if Don Miller had been reading their minds for years, and a generation of Christians soon found its voice. [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
Edge Venture: Experiential Healing
TweetI just got back from a men’s healing weekend retreat known as Edge Venture. Spending a weekend with men in that rare place where men feel truly free to express themselves and the pain they’ve experienced and still feel enslaved to is always a refreshing experience for me. The men in attendance outed some of their deepest shame [...]
An Interview with Greg Van Nada
TweetTonight at our LT main session, there was interview between friends Chris Mann and Greg Van Nada that I thought was really insightful at points. The full audio is here: But I thought I’d just share some of my notes & quotes in case you wanted th shorter version: – Paul preached the grace of Christ so [...]
Look Me in the Eyes
TweetThe other day, my friend Kyle and I were walking around at the Ann Arbor Art Fair when we were approached by a self-identified traveling monk named Mukunda. I assume he was Hindu because he handed Kyle and me two copies of the Bhagavad Gita and told us he was on a mission to spread the message of [...]
Grace and Porn: The Hugh Hefner Story
TweetA lot of students in our church struggle with sexual addiction. As I’ve come to learn more about the dynamics of a sexual addiction, I’ve become increasingly convinced that grace (undeserved favor resulting in a total release from guilt), rather than a white-knuckle effort to alter behavior, is the only solution (see Colossians 2:20-23). Experts on the subject [...]
How He Loves
TweetA couple weeks ago, David Crowder Band released their first single off their upcoming album “Church Music”, scheduled to release September 22. The song is called “How He Loves” and it absolutely floored me the first time I heard it. Though Crowder didn’t write it (the credit goes to John Mark McMillan), the song features the [...]