>>>Holiness doesn’t look like I thought it would. Somewhere in my life, I got mixed up as to what holiness was. I woke up one day realizing that all I had thought about holiness was wrong. So I set off on a journey to rediscover what it meant. For those of you who grew up [...]

 So, here’s the second video of my burgeoning vlog series, and, while I seem to take a while to get started (rambling rose), I think that I like where this ends up.  I think.  And I hope that you will, too.  Please be assured that I promise to not be so serious all the time. [...]

 Meaningless.  Pointless.  Empty. No one is human history wishes their lives to be described in such a way.  Yet, if Christ had not arisen from the dead and vanquished all of death in one re-established breath, every human life would not be able to escape this decree of vacuous insignificance. But the following passage has [...]

 As I announced earlier in the year, I will be running a guest post once per month (with enough interest) from now on, and our first “official” guest post is from a friend of mine from church, Greg Johnson, who is a wonderful man and fantastically gifted writer.  Perhaps he’ll rub off on me.  Still, [...]

 If you know much about me (and I’ve definitely opened a post with that phrase before; who loves originality?), you’d know that I feel as if I have a decent handle on what’s “cool.”  I’m as much a part of the scene, in my humble opinion, as a person can be.  But no one asks [...]

I’ve never been one to shy away from controversial topics.  Certainly when one chooses to write in a public manner, there is and will always be concern of “reader backlash” and possible repercussions that could occur, but as I’ve often said, people are my business and truth is my currency.  And since we’re telling the [...]

I’ve never been a big soda person.  My parents (wisely) only allowed us to have one soft drink per day, and that was back in the 80′s.  Talk about visionaries!  Still, I enjoyed my one soda per day, but I wasn’t addicted like my brother and sister were.  My dad loved the carbonated drink, but [...]

There are a few things in this world that I know to be absolute truth.  There is a God.  Onions do not ”enhance” flavor.  I look ridiculous clean-shaven.  Seinfeld was the greatest television show in history.  There.  And anytime I can write about one of these four things (among others) and make sense in somewhat certain [...]

I figure it’s about time all of you read something phenomenal on my website.  And since that’s never coming from me, I asked my best friend and missionary to Portugal, David, to write a special guest post.  He told me this story when I was visiting him and his wife in Montijo, and I asked [...]

Earlier this summer, I was visiting my dear mumsy and daddy in my beautiful, quaint hometown.  Hungry, I did what any son would do at his parents’ house, regardless of age.  The stomach never discriminates in relation to space and time, you know.  After grabbing a snack (which are always in abundance at my house), [...]