Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Aftermath

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Aftermath: Seeing her relationship status change sucked. I blocked her on Facebook so I wouldn't see any of her status updates or pictures, and I g...

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Inflicted

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Inflicted: I got home really early in the morning, actually I only made it home thanks to the rumble strips on the side of the highway (I don't thi...

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Setup

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Setup: I never date all that much. My first girlfriend was a girl from high school, but be didn't get together until the summer after graduatio...

Pr. 18.24: Quit Running From Your Emotions! by Jacob

Pr. 18.24: Quit Running From Your Emotions! by Jacob: “Water.” I say with a measure of finality. “Water and mountains. Or fog and mountains. Or Rain! But there has to be a front porch and coff...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Healing Part 2: Reconnecti...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Healing Part 2: Reconnecti...: Over the past few months my former mentor and I have been reconnecting. At first I wasn't sure what this would look like. We live severa...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Healing Part 1: Reaching O...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Healing Part 1: Reaching O...: It was going on five years since I had talked to my former mentor. One of the pastor's I had been meeting with challenged me to write ou...

Pr. 18.24: Keep Fighting, by Will

Pr. 18.24: Keep Fighting, by Will: Over the past month I've heard the word "weary" used to describe my life and situation a lot. "physically or mentally exh...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Impact

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Impact: We didn't talk for years. I was hurt, and being pretty stubborn (I'm working on turning this into grit, the positive definition of t...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Aftermath

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Aftermath: The last time he and I talked I did something that I had told him I would one day do, call him not seeking advice, but just to see how he wa...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Inflicted

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Inflicted: After leaving the church I had been pastoring, I began to attend the church my mentor was at. I was now ordained, so I didn't have an se...

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Setup

Fighting Lions: The Wound I Made Worse, Setup: In the summer of 2008 I had to do a senior internship as part of my undergraduate program. I had a church in mind that I wanted to do this i...

Fighting Lions: The Misplaced Wound, Healing Part 2: The Real Woun...

Fighting Lions: The Misplaced Wound, Healing Part 2: The Real Woun...: I can't describe how that revelation felt. For so long I had been hung up on the wrong moment. I had never talked about this part of my ...

Fighting Lions: The Misplaced Wound, Healing Part 1: Off to Michig...

Fighting Lions: The Misplaced Wound, Healing Part 1: Off to Michig...: For a couple years I had felt that God was leading me go back to Michigan, this was the first place I really felt called to return to. I put...

Fighting Lions: The Misplaced Wound, Impact

Fighting Lions: The Misplaced Wound, Impact: I've been thinking about this post for the past few days, and honestly I'm not even sure what to write. This whole series of posts o...