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(This post includes just one publishing secret. Many more are included on a free recorded call. Listen here.) The other day I was chatting with one of my coaching clients. I am a fan of hers and the transformation she’s experienced and that’s why I had to tell her. She keeps referring to the time in the near future when she will become an author once she publishes a book. (As if she needs a book contract to legitimize her dream.) What...

How’s the view from under the bus? Let’s talk about it on Deeper Waters. I have yet to read Ehrman’s “Did Jesus Exist?” although I do have a copy of it here, but library books come first. That having been said, it has been amusing on some web sites to see how Richard Carrier is [...]...

Bobby at “Deconstructing Neverland” has written a very good post called “You Don’t Know Jack.” The point of his post is that we often recognize (through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit) our need for relationships with others, especially others who are in Christ. However, in a desire to create those relationships, we often end up with something much less. In fact, often when we creat...

Yesterday, I asked the question, “How far does your heart extend?” With that question, I was asking where along the spectrum God has placed your loves and passions: from those nearby to those far away and across the globe. Neither extreme is better than the other. In this post, I ask a similar, but someone different, question: How has God gifted you by his Spirit? This question refers to what is typica...

One of the things I talk about in my latest book Empty Promises is this idea of living the “Aware Life.” I wrote… In an effort to find out why I felt so empty, I started to pay more attention to what was going on internally. Paying attention or examining my life forces me to face the internal questions I can no longer keep quiet. I was compelled to come face-to-face with what was lurking at the deepest level of my soul. These we...

What are my thoughts on Ehrman’s book “Jesus Interrupted?” Let’s talk about it on Deeper Waters. Jesus Interrupted says that it’s about the hidden contradictions in the Bible with the added emphasis of “and why we don’t know about them.” Ehrman starts off early talking about how seminaries have to have “Baby Bible” exams where [...]...

The title of this post is my translation of the first part of Romans 1:12, which the ESV translates, “…[T]hat we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith…” [I'm not sure why they decided to leave out the prepositional phrase "among/in you (plural)."] I was reminded of this verse – part of Paul’s letter to the Christians in Rome – when I read a post by Eric at...

We all know that God gifts his children differently through the presence and power of his Holy Spirit. We also know that God gives us all different opportunities to increase his kingdom. But, lately, I’ve had a few conversations that have stretched my thinking in other ways as well. For one thing, several people have commented about or asked something like this: “How far does your heart extend?” ...

I snapped this picture last evening of my youngest son, Brewer, flying his kite. He’s always had a thing for kites. It reminded me of a time over a year ago when he had received a kite as a gift. It hung there in our laundry room for months as almost daily he would beg me to fly it in the backyard. Every time he asked I would remind him that our backyard was full of trees and it would inevitably get stuck in the tree. Well, he eventually wo...

What were my thoughts on the debate on homosexual marriage on Unbelievable? Let’s talk about it on Deeper Waters. Recently on Unbelievable?, host Justin Brierley had a debate on homosexual marriage between Peter Tatchell and Peter D. Williams. Tatchell has been a lifelong advocate of what he prefers to call “gay rights.” Peter D. Williams [...]...