[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”lifeverse welcoming truth sermon dfmc”]image: Davison Free Methodist Church[/featured-image] This past Sunday I spoke in both services at the church I grew up in and where I worked for eight years when I first went into the ministry. I didn’t know at the time that the service was going to beContinue reading “Welcoming Truth”
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What Is Your Destiny?
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”What is Your Destiny?”]123rf.com[/featured-image] What Is Destiny? People have always lauded me for my transparency and authenticity. It probably seems like searching intensely for ultimate truth is my destiny. But I feel like I just realized at any early age that I’m terrible at hiding my emotions, and terrible at actingContinue reading “What Is Your Destiny?”
Why I Need Your Grace
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”authenticity, vulnerability, and grace”]123rf.com[/featured-image] We all need grace. I try to extend mine to everyone at all times. Here are some reasons why I need yours. I’m a flawed person. I am a flawed pastor, flawed teacher, flawed therapist, flawed husband and father. As charming and charismatic as I have learnedContinue reading “Why I Need Your Grace”
Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] My original post on this topic concluded with these lines: Both living in truth and living in falsehood bring suffering. In my next post, I’ll talk about why the suffering that truth brings is better. Have you ever had a terrible, miserable, horrible, awful experience that, when it’s over, you lookContinue reading “Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps”
Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth
The most significant moment of my moral life was the moment I decided to never let fear, or being offended, to keep me from considering whether something is true. Make that commitment and your life will never be the same. It’s the moral equivalent of taking the red pill. When you make that decision, youContinue reading “Decide to Never Let Fear Keep You from the Truth”
Five Things to Remember Before Sharing Truth with Someone
My work with individuals — students, parishioners, and clients — is built squarely on the critical role of truth and truth-telling. Below are some of my core beliefs about truth, and these core beliefs determine how I approach the truth in my work with people. I think more people (especially, but not only, religious people)Continue reading “Five Things to Remember Before Sharing Truth with Someone”
Ruthlessly Honest
From a recent Facebook post: I want to be ruthlessly honest in my intellectual, spiritual, and political life and in my writings. I want to serve the truth and only the truth, not caring at all what a single person thinks otherwise. I’m not out to “defend” an ideology — just to learn and speakContinue reading “Ruthlessly Honest”
Living Truthfully, chapter 4: The Roles of Fear and Mythology
Chapter 4 – The Roles of Fear and Mythology Fear is the number one reason why people do not live truthfully. Fear keeps people locked up in themselves, and isolated from one another. Fear is the soil where hatred grows, both of self and of others. If you could get 10,000 people into a stadiumContinue reading “Living Truthfully, chapter 4: The Roles of Fear and Mythology”
Letting Go
Nothing is as difficult, or as necessary, as letting go. At this moment you are burdened by things from your past — damaging words, destructive arguments, hurtful parents and other role models, painful situations. These things build and build in your life, starting in childhood. You put them on the back burner so you canContinue reading “Letting Go”
Does Right and Wrong Start with You or With God?
I’m going to say something a lot of people will be uncomfortable with, but it needs to be said for the only reason anything ever needs to be said — because it’s true. I’m speaking here to religious people, Christians in particular. You, not God, and not the Bible, are the standard of right andContinue reading “Does Right and Wrong Start with You or With God?”
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