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Five Ways My Faith Has Grown as an Entrepreneur

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Five Ways My Faith Has Grown as an Entrepreneur

I never dreamed of being an entrepreneur. Yet God has walked alongside me as I gained experience and explored my gifting. And over the years, God has taught me some of the most valuable lessons through the lens of being a small business owner. The… Read On

Published April 16, 2018

Karaoke Courage: Lessons from Open Mic Night

Karaoke Courage: Lessons from Open Mic Night

“Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.” Mary Daly (via Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection) There are images you… Read On

Published March 13, 2018

Five False Narratives Driving Your Decisions — And How to Defy Them

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Five False Narratives Driving Your Decisions — And How to Defy Them

The other day I asked my six-year-old daughter what I assumed was a simple question — “Where do you want to go get ice cream?” There are two great options in town, and I wanted to let her make the final decision. Instead of the enthusiastic… Read On

Published December 10, 2017

Our Call to Church Planting

Our Call to Church Planting

After two years in a former steakhouse, our CrossRoads church plant in Salina, Kansas, purchased the largest bar in the city and converted it into a house of worship. Taking advantage of a natural divide in the building, we used about two-thirds for… Read On

Published November 10, 2017

The Habit of Neighboring

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The Habit of Neighboring

A few years ago, we discovered our house had a drainage problem. We learned that if nothing was done we’d have some serious structural problems. With little money and even less knowledge, my wife and I watched a couple of YouTube videos and… Read On

Published October 6, 2017

Celebrating Women in Ministry Leadership

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Celebrating Women in Ministry Leadership

At 10 years old, I found myself in a small, crowded living room in Northern Ireland — the gathering place of the Bible club of a growing church plant. Whether or not a formal preacher, the woman leading taught Scripture. And at the end of the… Read On

Published August 25, 2017

Downward Mobility

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Downward Mobility

I live in a neighborhood that, to the world outside it, is virtually invisible. Places like my neighborhood in East Dayton are almost never depicted in TV shows or in movies — if they are, they are represented as alien places into which the… Read On

Published July 20, 2017

My Neighbor, the Enemy

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My Neighbor, the Enemy

“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in… Read On

Published June 28, 2017

Moving Toward the Vision

Moving Toward the Vision

In Acts 1:8, Jesus told his disciples that they were to be “witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” For Christ’s disciples today, “Jerusalem” refers to our local area—our people group… Read On

Published August 4, 2015