On being forged and being formed
I’ve done few things as cathartic, challenging, and frustrating as blacksmithing. In its rawest element, it so closely resembles the human condition and life’s respective course, it instills a reverence…
The Refiner’s Fire at Thrive Church
We love the good people at Thrive Church in Lockport, Illinois. My family got to spend some time with them this morning while I shared some insider details on dross…
Where is God in Pain? A Response to Our Nation’s Losses
It might be one of the oldest questions known to mankind. In a sense, it is one of the simplest, most basic questions—given a specific target: Why, God? Why did…
Men and the Church: Peter
There’s this prevailing idea that church isn’t really for men—or if it is, it’s only for a certain kind of man. More people are thinking it than saying it out…