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The Alive Journal // how to make me happy

Its been a pretty good week for The Alive Journal so far. The stats indicate that a pretty committed core have been following it each day. This is a short devotion like/commentary like page that is updated once a day for the next 22 days or so that will help you journey through the book [...]

Jesus time

I never liked the terms “quiet time” or “devotion time” or “devotional.” Those were the trendy words that everyone used and that’s pretty much why I didn’t like them, not because they were bad. So, I came up with “Jesus time.” I just realized how ridiculous it is that I assumed I could section off [...]

Suburban Jesus

After reading a post on the “suburban Jesus” this morning, there is something brewing deep inside once again that makes me want to write. The only problem is that I don’t know fully how to explain what I am feeling. A few words come and I start to chase a thought, and then I erase [...]

Wild Goose Chase Conversation

If you haven’t picked up your copy of Wild Goose Chase, you should go pick up your copy and get busy on it. Today, the conversation begins. It’s beautiful how God weaves people, events, books, etc. into our story in order to shape and define us. The first chapter of Wild Goose Chase is all [...]

This is Religulous

Watch the trailer for Bill Maher’s latest documentary, Religulous. Let me know what you think. Personal thoughts: Sweet, a challenge to live for Christ in a real and relevant way without freaking people out. This should be informative about what it is that freaks those people out. And maybe, just maybe, nominal Christianity will take [...]

268 Generation

Isaiah 26.8 is where the 268 generation lays its foundation. “Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for You; Your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.” Your name and Your renown. I have heard this claim for years as I have followed the Passion movement and claimed to [...]

missed opportunity…part last

I didn’t get any votes really. Apparently everyone missed the opportunity. Here is my response, however, on why we keep our mouths shut when there is a perfect opportunity to speak to someone. We believe that our glory is more important than His. Argue with me if you will, but every excuse is wrapped up [...]

closed mouths

Vote Number 2. This is a follow-up post to “missing an opportunity” from last week. I hope this will be the first of at least two posts on this topic, but I would like this first post to be somewhat interactive. I would like to hear from you. Yes, this requires some action on your [...]

shaping me

I have seen other people put up posts with a myriad of links in them. This is not something I do, but I found the value of it this week. As a result, my plan is to give you a post each week with links to other blogs that I am reading that are shaping [...]

missing an opportunity

Today I confess. I know there are thousand times that I miss opportunities to speak the truth of the glorious life that is inside of me, but today I missed an opportunity that was more than evident in front of me and I walked away from it. This is difficult to confess and I have [...]