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Welcome to my archives. Here you can find a chronological list of all my posts here.

2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010

2024 (5)

25 Nov / When the Marginalized Are Our Prophets (TAW056)
14 Nov / Constantine wasn’t the problem. Here’s why that matters today.
26 Sep / Two Preachers React to God’s Love. Which One Speaks for You?
18 Sep / A Better Place Than Here (TAW055)
31 May / Hey Church, What Are We Building?

2023 (10)

11 Oct / Knowing the Past to Make a Better Future (TAW054)
11 Oct / No, Love Does Not Require Unity.
08 Sep / What if the Bible isn’t perfect? (TAW053)
03 Sep / “Biblical Womanhood is Christian Patriarchy.” We can do better.
03 Aug / Starting over sucks. Starting over gives life.
23 Jun / Childlike Faith vs. Childish Faith. (TAW052)
23 May / When the Garden runs wild.
09 May / Faith When You Don’t Feel Faithful. (TAW051)
23 Feb / Consider Your (Inner Life) Gardening Tools
03 Feb / Your Heart is a Garden

2022 (50)

2021 (12)

30 Dec / When You Join the Club of the Vulnerable + An Update
02 Dec / When Our Body Keeps Record of Wrong
15 Oct / A More Beautiful Deconstruction (TAW046)
20 Sep / Make an offering of frustration.
17 Sep / Let’s Normalize Being Wrong (TAW045)
28 May / When deconstruction comes from hope.
14 May / Your Suffering is Sacred (TAW044)
30 Apr / Are you doing your faith?
19 Apr / Your Purity & Piety Will Get You Nowhere (TAW043)
17 Mar / Can You Imagine Jesus Demanding Sex? – Interview with Sheila Wray Gregoire (TAW042)
09 Feb / Trust Your Instinct About the Church – Interview with Fr. Kenneth Tanner (TAW041)
14 Jan / This IS Us. We Need To Own It. (TAW040)

2020 (28)

07 Dec / We are being gathered. (Unexpected encouragement amidst the hate mail.)
30 Nov / You Need an Architecture of Grief (TAW039)
23 Nov / 76% (And why that number guts me).
29 Oct / Would Jesus call you (or your church) Satan? (TAW038)
19 Oct / Jeremiah’s words for Christians in 2020.
12 Oct / Looking for God in all the wrong places – Interview with Paul J. Pastor (TAW037)
24 Sep / Are we listening to false prophets?
07 Sep / Don’t Avoid Starting Over (TAW036)
31 Aug / Do we have the courage to stop racial injustice?
25 Aug / Your Values are Showing! (TAW035)
24 Jul / A Prayer & Process for Remaining Grounded in a Chaotic World
19 Jul / The 5 Stages of Pandemic Grief (TAW034)
08 Jul / Building Hope When We Feel Hopeless
23 Jun / Why are we feeling so crazy, and what can we do about it – Trauma response in the time of pandemic & protests (TAW033)
04 Jun / Pentecost, Breathing & George Floyd (TAW032)
01 Jun / Pentecost, Breathing & George Floyd
29 May / COVID, Suffering & Jesus (TAW031)
18 May / It’s OK to Miss Your People!
11 May / Faith Isn’t Certainty (TAW030)
21 Apr / A Psalm for when COVID-19 upends your life.
13 Apr / The Trip is the Point (TAW029)
24 Mar / When Normal breaks, what do you learn about yourself?
04 Mar / Low-Stress Knowing God’s Will (TAW028)
18 Feb / An open letter in a time of increasing fear among Christians
12 Feb / In You I Remain (TAW027) (Anchor Prayer, Part 7)
03 Feb / Is Jesus really your way? (A question & A Book Recommendation.)
30 Jan / I Hear in Faith (TAW026) (Anchor Prayer, Part 6)
13 Jan / 1 reason that new spiritual program or spiritual practice might not be for you.

2019 (31)

09 Dec / I Walk by Faith (TAW025) (Anchor Prayer, Part 5)
02 Dec / Your theology is just a theory.
19 Nov / I Rest in Faith (TAW024) (Anchor Prayer, Part 4)
31 Oct / Don’t bypass the narrow gate to growth.
14 Oct / Time to Listen to Survivors of Sexual Trauma (TAW023)
09 Oct / Quote – The way of Jesus.
08 Oct / The wilderness you’re in may be exactly what you need.
01 Oct / We’ve got Glory Upside Down (TAW022)
04 Sep / If you’re in the wilderness, you are not alone!
17 Jun / What is the Anchor Prayer? (TAW021) (Anchor Prayer, Part 3)
07 Jun / How a driven performer has found healing in a mystical prayer. (A Reflection on the Anchor Prayer)
20 May / Is Memorized Prayer the key you’ve been missing? (TAW020) (Anchor Prayer, Part 2)
14 May / Why this pastor talks about emotions so dang much.
26 Apr / How Abiding is Possible (TAW019) (Anchor Prayer, Part 1)
23 Apr / The Chapter I forgot to write.
08 Apr / 4 Clues You Need Emotional Growth (TAW018)
04 Apr / Did you know your Christian hero was a theological mess?
26 Mar / Emotional Growth is Not A Niche! (TAW017)
26 Mar / Can I Handle this Present Moment? Practicing Presence and the release of my Audiobook.
18 Mar / The Inner Work Imperative (TAW016)
18 Mar / You can meet God in your anxiety.
11 Mar / Are you doing the hidden inner work? (TAW015)
05 Mar / What’s an Inner Life, and do you have one?
27 Feb / God wants you emotional. (TAW014)
26 Feb / You’re NOT the only Jesus they’ll ever meet.
15 Feb / The Spiritual Discipline of Minding Your Own Damn Business (TAW013)
01 Feb / When Christianity seems like just too much.
24 Jan / Don’t Run Aimlessly (TAW012)
16 Jan / Today’s the Day!
12 Jan / Gratitude Can Save Your Life! (TAW011)
07 Jan / Where is Jesus in this moment?

2018 (20)

17 Dec / Don’t Mistake the Trellis for the Grape (TAW010)
11 Dec / Can Gratitude Save Your Life?
12 Nov / How to Spot Poisonous Friends (TAW009)
05 Nov / Struggling to get into scripture? Here’s 5 ways to keep your experience of the Bible fresh.
31 Oct / How to Grab Yourself Some Peace (TAW008)
23 Oct / A Low-Stress Guide to Finding God’s Will
24 Sep / Tell Your Monkeys to be Quiet! (TAW007)
17 Sep / Worried your prayer requests aren’t big enough? Pray anyway.
14 Aug / Your To-Do List Is Numinous (TAW006)
11 Aug / Ten Ideas that Connected (2018 Top Ten Posts)
31 Jul / Are we growing in faith, hope and love?
19 Jul / Making Friends With Your Limits (TAW005)
02 Jul / A Blanket for Rachel
24 May / The Freedom To Not Get Your Way (TAW004)
14 May / When Jesus Changed Religion Forever (TAW003)
11 May / Do you need a little daily pastor? A Review of The Listening Day, by Paul. J. Pastor
04 May / The Deeper Conversion (TAW EP002)
25 Apr / Your To-Do List is Numinous
16 Apr / Introductions (TAW EP001)
05 Apr / The Limits You Hate May Be Good For You

2017 (20)

2016 (21)

18 Dec / The 1 practice that has helped me grow the most.
28 Nov / Four fears that will keep you from growing.
16 Nov / I’m Sorry: The Dysfunctional Marriage of Church & State
04 Nov / What’s God’s purpose for personal growth?
24 Oct / A Pastor’s Apology
24 Oct / The person who knows your spiritual state best is your neighbor.
20 Oct / Hey Christian, Personal Growth is not Optional!
26 Apr / Attitudes that propel you forward.
18 Apr / Don’t let your attitude derail your life’s purpose.
09 Apr / Look closer for clues to your life purpose.
06 Apr / Hunting for the purpose of life? Here’s a landmark.
29 Mar / Read & Grow / Why Wandering Deepens Your Faith
26 Mar / Looking for Purpose? Start with your Identity in Christ
24 Mar / Wandering Lost? Finding your Purpose will change that.
19 Mar / Is your purpose really to give God the glory?
16 Mar / Having a Life Purpose isn’t Enough!
12 Mar / You are a Hand-made Piece of Art
08 Mar / Feeling Insecure? Try Standing in a New Position
17 Feb / Social Media Ethics: May the words of my internet comments and the meditation of my text messages be acceptable to You, Lord.
08 Feb / 3 fatal tendencies crippling your online communication
31 Jan / Is your online life Christian?

2015 (89)

18 Dec / Praying for Open Eyes: See Yourself as God Sees You
15 Dec / What platform building taught me about following Jesus
10 Dec / Weekend Wisdom / Bad Things Are Going to Happen. Be At Peace.
05 Nov / Hack the Facebook Algorithm for Spiritual Growth.
01 Nov / Weekend Wisdom / How to Read the Bible with Jesus as Your Lens, Part 1
28 Oct / Believe again and again.
20 Oct / Jesus Invitation? Not so hard as you thought.
11 Oct / Weekend Wisdom / How to read the Bible when it seems like ANYONE can make it say ANYTHING.
07 Oct / 4 Promises from God, including 1 I’d rather skip.
30 Sep / An Open Letter to Christians in Election Season
27 Sep / Weekend Wisdom / How to read the Bible when you keep getting bogged down in Leviticus
31 Aug / Not everything in the Bible is Biblical!
09 Jul / Did Jesus treat the Bible like we do?
05 Jul / Weekend Wisdom / How to read the Bible when it seems like nothing but ancient & irrelevant rules.
02 Jul / The tools for facing fear.
28 Jun / Weekend Wisdom / How to read the Bible when you know too much.
21 Jun / Weekend Wisdom / Walking in the In-Between Moment
17 Jun / An Open Letter to Christians on the Internet
08 Jun / Quote – Jesus is God’s Guarantee
07 Jun / Quote – Justice & Neighborliness
07 Jun / Weekend Wisdom / Tell Your Jesus Story
06 Jun / Quote – Christian spirituality can be deadly.
05 Jun / When the Bible’s been used to bash, clobber, or hurt you.
05 Jun / Quote – Don’t Be Afraid
04 Jun / Quote – Turning Toward our Pain
03 Jun / Quote – Vocation & Passion
02 Jun / Quote – Jesus Entered our Drama
01 Jun / Quote – Don’t Take it Personally
31 May / Quote – God’s Patience with the Pious
31 May / Weekend Wisdom / Spirit & Truth Right Now.
29 May / Quote – We know the truth by the heart.
28 May / Quote – Our False Sense of Shame
27 May / Why reading the Bible straight through is usually a bad idea.
24 May / Weekend Wisdom / Living Water Within
20 May / New to the Bible? Wandering around confused?
18 May / Quote – Don’t Cautiously Avoid Sin
17 May / Quote – Justice is a Manifestation of Love
15 May / Quote – The Summary of Biblical Faith
13 May / Has familiarity with the Bible left you bored and jaded?
13 May / Quote – Why doesn’t God do something?
11 May / Quote – Faithful, not Successful
08 May / Quote – Bob Goff says God plants seed, not sod.
06 May / 2 Reasons using the Bible to prove your point is often wrong.
05 May / Quote – Our most Genuinely Christian Actions
04 May / Quote – Don’t Conceal Wounds
03 May / Quote – All life is about loving people.
01 May / Quote – When you are sorrowful look into your heart.
30 Apr / Quote – How Offendable Are We?
29 Apr / Is the Bible human or divine? The problem is in your either/or question.
28 Apr / Quote – What a Man Loves
27 Apr / Quote – How to Unchristian the Faith.
26 Apr / Quote – Serve God… in an advisory role.
23 Apr / Quote – The Opportunity of Reconciliation
22 Apr / Maybe you need to ignore the rules in the Bible.
22 Apr / Quote – The greatest enemy of holiness is apathy.
21 Apr / Quote – The person who has learned to let go.
18 Apr / Quote – Can’t listen to your brother?
15 Apr / Quote – Knowing ABOUT God is not knowing God.
13 Apr / Quote – Christians should have indiscriminate respect for others.
11 Apr / Quote – Spirituality should rid me of hate.
10 Apr / Quote – Struggle with God
08 Apr / No Answers? Jesus Blesses You.
08 Apr / Quote – Doubt is not the opposite of faith.
07 Apr / Quote – Justice is a Theological Necessity
06 Apr / Quote – Steinbeck on the Gospel
03 Apr / Quote – Can’t Wash Feet from a Pedestal
01 Apr / Quote – Returned Transformed
31 Mar / The Best Bible for you? (How to find a Good Bible, Part 3)
30 Mar / Quote – Made in the Image of What You Desire
25 Mar / Untangling Versions. (How to Find a Good Bible, Part 2)
23 Mar / Quote – God’s least expected entrance
23 Mar / Quote – When you don’t wait
23 Mar / Quote – To feel is to be human.
23 Mar / Quote – The Heart of a Religious Person
22 Mar / Quote – The Privilege to Help
22 Mar / Quote – Being Present to Hear God
22 Mar / Quote – Growth is a Choice
18 Mar / You Need a GOOD Bible. (How to Find a Good Bible, Part 1)
17 Mar / Quote – God is not about our comfort.
17 Mar / Quote – Avoiding Legitimate Suffering
17 Mar / Quote – Jesus’ Humiliating Lineage
17 Mar / Quote – Wounded Faith
17 Mar / Quote – Treat People As If They Were
17 Mar / Quote – Today I Shall Behave…
17 Mar / Quote – The Irreligion of Religion
05 Mar / Jesus says you are not alone.
26 Feb / Recovering Fundamentalist? What is that?
21 Feb / For when fear is holding you back.
03 Feb / Throwing out the vendors in your heart.

2014 (41)

26 Dec / The promise religion can’t keep, that Christmas does.
18 Dec / Where do you look when your foundation is shaken?
10 Dec / The Target for a Life-Changing FTF Routine.
03 Dec / The FTF Routine that gives me life.
19 Nov / Is your day your property or someone else’s? (Why you need a FTF routine.)
10 Nov / Are you hiding your shame with contempt?
22 Oct / How do we learn from Jesus when Jesus isn’t around?
16 Oct / Hey follower of Jesus, do you really know who you’re following?
08 Oct / Read to Grow / Radically Normal (or Are you suffering from Spiritual Accomplishment Urgency Syndrome?)
01 Oct / Don’t you worry. God is working it out.
21 Sep / Weekend Wisdom / When Your Plans Failing is the Best Thing For You
07 Sep / What if God wants your plans to fall apart?
31 Aug / Weekend Wisdom / The Always Prayer
31 Jul / Read & Grow / How to be a Christian without Going to Church
23 Jul / How a $280 Treadmill Desk helped me be more intentional.
13 Jul / Weekend Wisdom / Living with Open Hands
11 Jul / Hey busy person, how do you remember God?
15 Jun / Weekend Wisdom / Living Like There’s More
11 Jun / An Apprenticeship with Jesus: Something More than a Relationship with God
04 Jun / What is Perspective? The 1 Thing That Can Change Your Experience.
28 May / Feeling Shame? Don’t Hide.
15 May / How to journal for spiritual growth.
12 May / The Painful Door to Growth: Vulnerability
07 May / Are you afraid of growing?
05 May / Is your religion feeding you or is it just knife skills?
04 May / Weekend Wisdom / Share What You’ve Been Given
24 Apr / Thinking about death? Your should be. Here’s why.
20 Apr / Weekend Wisdom / Part of a Resurrection Community
16 Apr / How to Handle the Hard Times
07 Apr / Your Invitation? To Live Fully Awake.
26 Mar / How to know if you have any idols
12 Mar / What a follower of Jesus can learn from insecure writers
27 Feb / Who is in charge of your brain?
12 Feb / I will make you fishers of men. Really?
05 Feb / You Delight the Father. Be Free.
29 Jan / Don’t judge me! (Or maybe you should.)
22 Jan / The Gospel you believe shapes the life you live.
15 Jan / A bigger life needs a bigger gospel.
09 Jan / Which Eternal Life are you Chasing?
06 Jan / Want an Abundant Life? Change how you see God.
01 Jan / Why you shouldn’t delete Facebook this year.

2013 (47)

12 Dec / 5 Emotional Lessons I Learned From a Relational Train Wreck
21 Nov / Stop treating spiritual growth like a lottery!
18 Nov / The old walk won’t take you new places.
07 Nov / 100 Reasons You Should Not Go to Church & One Reason You Should.
04 Nov / Maybe you shouldn’t speak the truth in love.
29 Oct / Why wouldn’t you pray?
16 Oct / The overlooked key to spiritual growth
15 Oct / Let Go. Then Let Go Again.
07 Oct / “This is what I was made for.” How often can you say that?
04 Oct / Learn from Jesus. Live in the Gospels.
30 Sep / Have you decided to learn from Jesus?
27 Sep / The 7 Commitments of an Apprentice of Jesus
24 Sep / Jesus calls us to be what?
22 Sep / I believe in Grace but is effort legalistic?
14 Sep / Following Jesus: It’s Something You DO.
11 Sep / Following Jesus: It’s Not Just Believing
08 Sep / Mary DeMuth & Sexual Abuse: An Untold Story Never Heals
04 Sep / Why being Christian embarrasses me
30 Aug / 4 ways not to wreck your life (Life lessons from a motorcycle)
28 Aug / 4 reasons why being a novice is better than being an expert
08 Aug / Warning: Changing your circumstances won’t give you peace.
03 Aug / Evict fear by shining a light on it.
25 Jul / Unclear about your direction? Pick a Fight.
15 Jul / How Can You Change Your Attitude?
12 Jul / Why you need both broccoli and cheesecake worship
09 Jul / Write Your Own Psalm
06 Jul / A Little Blog Self-Reflection & my Top Ten Posts
30 Jun / Stop saying, “I’m Fine” when it isn’t true
25 Jun / Good news! You don’t have to earn access to God.
17 Jun / In which a perfectionist admits that perfectionism is his problem.
12 Jun / Can you be Christian without going to Church? Think about this before you decide.
06 Jun / It’s time you got demoted! (Be a Steward, not the CEO.)
04 Jun / Weekend Wisdom / A Gospel Jerk
30 May / How the Gospel made me an intolerant jerk
24 May / Relieve stress with an Inside-Out Attitude
14 May / The role of attitude in spiritual growth
05 May / OK, I admit it. I hate forgiveness too.
29 Apr / 4 Lessons about intentional growth from an unexpected vacation.
18 Apr / The Real Purpose of Reading the Bible (And How You Might Have Missed It)
13 Apr / Brennan Manning: The ragamuffin who taught me Jesus’ heart
31 Mar / My Easter gift to you: The Story Your Heart is Desperate to Hear
19 Mar / Is the Pope a kidnapper? That Question is a Trap.
26 Feb / Keeping feelings and faith separate can kill you!
23 Jan / Need to Get Unstuck? Start Again.
10 Jan / Why Your New Year’s Resolution Will Fail (#2)
05 Jan / Why Your New Year’s Resolution Will Fail (Part 1)
01 Jan / Find Your Core Values to Focus for 2013

2012 (43)

30 Dec / Another Guest Post today. Check out Tammy Helfrich’s Blog.
29 Dec / I’m Honored to be Guest Posting for Dayna Bickham!
28 Dec / 4 Sure-Fire Ways to Make 2013 Great!
27 Dec / Stop. Look. Reflect. Here comes 2013.
24 Dec / Are You on the Journey of the Wise Men?
20 Dec / Perfectionism, Creativity & Inspiration: An Interview
17 Dec / Newtown’s Impact for Me
03 Dec / Focus Matters. (Shotguns are for Zombies.)
27 Nov / The 210 Framework: A Way to see your Identity and Purpose
21 Nov / That Bastard Perfectionism
14 Nov / Just For Today, Again
05 Nov / How To Get What You Want From God
26 Oct / Do You Know Too Much About Jesus?
22 Oct / A Dirty Worship Experience
18 Oct / Time to stop trying too hard.
09 Oct / Why Church? Because of This Picture.
24 Sep / You might be perishing, and why that stinks.
19 Sep / God’s only motivation? God’s love.
10 Sep / Born Again & Letting Go.
20 Aug / Jesus’ Cure for Anxiety
02 Aug / Worship Styles? It’s Not About the Shoes.
23 Jul / Break Bad Habits? You Need More Than One Brain!
20 Jul / You Won’t Find Something Better if You Can’t Let Go
15 Jul / Trust God: Take The Flying Leap
12 Jul / Need to Change your Life? Find some Unreasonable People.
09 Jul / Change your life? Then find these 3 things.
27 Jun / Need Hope? Avoid These 3 Sources of Empty Hope.
25 Jun / Warning: Without Hope You Won’t Grow
20 Jun / Stop Stress by Thinking About Stressors
18 Jun / You Are God’s Poem (That’s your Identity & Purpose.)
13 Jun / Negative Core Values & How You Can Change Them
11 Jun / How to Use Your Core Values
03 Jun / How To Identify Your Real Core Values
01 Jun / Are Your Core Values Real or Aspirational?
26 May / Why The Church Has To Stop Saying Sexual Sin Is The Most Important Thing.
19 May / I Quit the Culture War
16 May / Want to Be Heard? Get a Platform.
02 May / Myth #5: Ignore Your Emotions and They Will Just Go Away
28 Mar / Myth #4: Emotional Christians are Shallow.
16 Mar / Myth #3: Emotions Aren’t Spiritual
05 Mar / If you feel like God, You will do justice.
02 Mar / Love, Justice & the Problem of Indifferent Christians.
01 Jan / Get a great speaker

2011 (7)

28 Sep / Myth #2: Emotions Will Lead You Astray.
19 Sep / Myth #1: God’s Not Emotional.
01 Aug / 5 Things You Learned About Emotion in Church That Aren’t True.
22 Jul / No Emotional Growth? No Spiritual Growth.
02 Jul / Emotions Always Tell The Truth.
19 Jun / Rich Mullins on what Christianity is Not.
05 Jan / A Worship Short-Circuit.

2010 (5)

15 Dec / Worshipping as a Child.
30 Nov / The Connection Between Gratitude and Worship
25 Oct / Declare Your Creed-In-Process.
03 Sep / Write Your Own Psalm (v1)
15 Mar / Starting Again.

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