One of my goals for Junkyard Wisdom Rebuilt was to offer tangible ways to be generous. As one critic said about my first book, “It explains the why, but not the how.” That was by design of course — explaining the “how” of generosity can quickly slip into becoming prescriptive.
A few weeks ago I accidentally deleted over a thousand files from my computer. Thankfully I recovered them all, but they came back unsorted. All the business files were mixed with the PathLight files or the Westmont files or the family files, for instance. I’ve been slowly putting them in
Quick Commercial: My new book is released next week, June 2nd! Please order a copy here. Okay, back to thought of the week: In the last few weeks I’ve had several people tell me it’s time for them to move on from a ministry they lead. It reminded me of
Are you ready for another Junkyard Wisdom™ devotion series? Say yes. I’m the sensitive type and couldn’t handle your rejection. The next series is called Changing Gears: A Generosity Road Trip. It starts on May 31 and will run about two weeks. On this road trip we visit some famous
About a month ago my wife D’Aun had a fun trip with a few of her friends. So I had a ton of time on my own, and I spent it writing an absolutely ridiculous series of devotions. They are unlike any of the other edgy devotions I wrote and
My new book, Junkyard Wisdom Rebuilt, will be released June 2nd! The publisher has generously agreed to release one chapter early, and it’s completely free. Well, almost completely. I need your email address, but that’s all. Enter it below and you’ll be redirected to a page with the free chapter!
Lent starts on Wednesday. It’s never been a big deal to me. To be honest I was smug about it; all these people giving up chocolate seemed, well, shallow. But a few years ago I read about the history of Lent and was impressed by the depth of the tradition.
Parables can drive me crazy because they make me think. This became apparent to me, for the zillionth time, while writing the upcoming Lent devotions. Over and over Jesus speaks in parables. I don’t really want to think; thinking is hard. Sometimes I wanted to grab Jesus by the shirt