In the first half of 2012, I wrote my future self a letter. I had just completed my final semester as a business student at SMU and had gathered with a group of schoolmates to assemble a time...
In confronting the problem of being true to oneself, weโre left unsure of who we even are. This has resulted in a loneliness epidemic across the world. An ordained pastor and full-time speaker for...
First things first, I donโt profess to know everything, and experiences definitely vary between individuals. I find it terribly challenging to pen these thoughts down as I still consider myself...
Come May 17-19, 2019, hundreds of churches are uniting in a historic joint effort to share the Good News for 3 days and 3 nights in the National Stadium for the Celebration of Hope (COH). In light of...
Will we ever run out of grace? Will my sons be raised well while Iโm in jail? Will my wife wait for me or run off with another man? Am I a good father? These were probably the questions of anguish...
I came from a family with a silent father. He was never really pleased or displeased with me, but mainly disinterested. After enough disappointments and unmet promises in my childhood, he became a...
Joy does not come with the morning, I thought to myself on one of the many mornings my body had failed to stay asleep. Sleep would suddenly leave me in the early hours of the day, when it was still...
So many of us carry a spirit of resignation and cynicism bred from a thousand small disappointments over time. As an educator, I hear it in the disheartened voices of students who tell me, โI will...
Nobody likes the feeling of knowing you’re in the wrong. It first hits you with a gnawing feeling inside your heart, and before you know it, it’s the works: Shame, humiliation, regret and...