In a typical gold mining operation, the mining company must move tons of dirt in order to get a few grams of gold.  Let’s put that to scale for you.  Imagine a cube of dirt, three feet by three fee by three feet.  Now somewhere within that cube is the gold, which would be about [...]

In 1986, Motel 6 started an advertisement campaign which always ended with “We’ll leave the lights on for you”.  These ads were designed to instill a feeling of “we’re here for you, any time”.  I’d say that it was pretty effective, since when I needed a hotel I’d look for one of theirs.  And considering [...]

Seems like an obvious question, doesn’t it?  After all, I spelled f-a-i-t-h right there in the title of this post.  So I guess I’m not really asking how do you spell faith, but more like what does faith mean?  What does it look like?  How does it feel? In the book of Hebrews, chapter 11 [...]

The Ancient Greek aphorism “Know thyself” was inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.  We have heard this small simple phrase uttered many times through out history and literature.  But have you ever stopped to really think about what those two words mean?  What are their implications on your life? At [...]

I recently had the chance to lead a discussion in a school I was once a student in.  First, that was a great honor, that I was able to teach future pastors!  Second, God showed me something really cool that I just have to share with you. The class was to watch the movie Appalachian [...]

So, in 1986 at the age of 18, I joined the US Army.  I served for 5 years with the 18th Airborne Corp, and every week  we trained.  We would run for miles, do hundreds of pushups, hundreds of situps and who knows how many other exercises.  It was easy, because we did it all [...]