Unlike the prophet, judge, king-led faith assembly of the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit engages humanity in a manner that guides, inspires, provokes, encourages, discerns, and cautions the will of each of us on a personal and intimate level. Spiritual… Continue Reading →

What comes to mind when we hear the term, “church?” For some, it is a building of corporate worship. For others, it is a community of servitude. For some, church offers a place of identity and commonality. For others, church… Continue Reading →

Loyalty On the surface, loyalty denotes a keen sense of integrity and significance of self-sacrificing commitment. There is no doubt that when pursued in respect to efforts that serve to elevate authentic virtue, loyalty delivers positive intrinsic returns and social… Continue Reading →

Without realizing it, many faithful servants of Christ are in fact striving to maintain an archaic practice of behavioral submission to corporate expectation rather than experience freedom of expression in direct response to the Creator himself. Fear-based and controlled ideologies… Continue Reading →

So, if we are not responsible for avoiding or bringing to justice the trials and failures in our life- then should we assume that God does allow bad things happen to good people? Without hesitation or apology- yes. James, the… Continue Reading →

The modern American church exists in many various forms of purpose, service, ideals, mission, and theological levels that seek to satiate the appetite of an even larger variety of theological seekers. To the untrained eye and eager-to-please patron, corporate religion… Continue Reading →

Proverbs depicts wisdom as a woman with a separate identity. In it, she states, “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old,” Proverbs 8:22 ESV. She goes on to say, “When… Continue Reading →

A couple of summers ago, some out of town friends came to visit our family in Colorado over the July 4th weekend. Liz, my husband Dan, and I had known each other since birth (actually from the time I was… Continue Reading →

For the majority of my life, my spiritual security rested upon a religious cruise ship and adhered to regulations that produced an inauthentic version of Christianity. Religion sells counterfeit Christianity by marketing the convenience of trusting others with our spiritual… Continue Reading →

My childhood did not prepare me for the world of social media. I suppose this is primarily because it, along with the Internet, did not exist on a public platform. Neither did mobile phones, WiFi, Netflix, and a host of… Continue Reading →