I’ve received some awful advice in my day. But I’ve also received pearls from places I expected little worth. Or at times when I planned to scale my mountain alone. These days you can’t assume where God wants to speak to you. Most of the time you don’t want to hear from anyone else, it’s an indication you […]
Archives for February 2015
How to Make Her Love Being a Woman
(This is Part 2 in a series about empowering femininity. Part 1 is “Woman of God, Will You Lead the Church?“) One of my deep desires is to empower women and encourage them to come alive in their natures as women. This post is about how to do that. — A prominent guitarist was desperate to meet […]
Freaky Friday: Fall in Love With Your Spouse After — Not Before — You’re Married
The lights dim. The honeymoon romance is hot. Jimmy is a Christian stud, one in a million guy. Jenny is gorgeous, every hair perfectly in place, a smile always on her face, the kind of girl every guy wants. Everyone sighs. Why can’t we all have love like this? This is how it was meant […]
Why You Have to Be Gangsta to Make People Respect Your Words
Most people don’t care what you have to say. They hear advice all day, and your words are just chirping in the background of a world they’ve long tuned out. That’s why you need to do something bold, something unpredictable to get their attention. In the Godfather: Part 2, young Vito Corleone, played by Robert Dinero, shuffles […]
Touchy Tuesday: Christians, God Didn’t Metaphorically Create You
(Touchy Tuesdays — we’re going through controversial, difficult passages in the Bible once a week to get deeper in the Word for all you Bible lovers.) Christians, God Didn’t Metaphorically Create You Genesis 1-2.3 There’s nothing cooler to modern thinkers than the idea of being metaphorically created. In one grand, cosmic lougie, God hawked up the spiritual ambiguity […]
Woman of God, Will You Lead the Church?
The night is darkest before the dawn. This is a universal metaphor for hope. The metaphor loses its meaning, however, if while waiting the people become enamored with the night, the light of the moon’s reflection lulling them with a sickly, pale sort of illumination, a shadow hiding the beauty present there rather than illumining […]
How Becoming a Disciple of Jesus, NOT a Pretender, Helps You Win at Life and Girls
(This is the final part of a 3 part series titled How to Get a Girl Who’s Better Than You. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here.) In a world in which I lived with a stick up my butt, I’d tell you how much I hate this title. The implication that you should get serious with […]
How to Win the Girl of Your Dreams By Becoming the Man of HERS
(This is part 2 of How to Get a Girl Who’s Better Than You. Part 3 is How Becoming a Disciple of Jesus, NOT a Pretender, Helps You Win at Life and Girls) Guys, if you want to win the girl of your dreams, you have to make an important choice. There’s a price for every great conquest. We’re not talking in […]