Featured Life Liturgy
A Liturgy for Adoption
Adoption is so close to God’s heart. Before our third child, Van was conceived, we struggled with secondary infertility for a several years—desperately wanting to add another baby to our family, and being told no at every turn
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A Liturgy For the Loss of a Baby
Father God, I am broken and poured outthere is nothing left inside me.For these past momentsmy heart expanded in the goodness of your creation,in the promise of the child within.Yet now that promise is gone,and I mourn the loss of a future with this,your precious...
The Evangelical Right Has a Much Bigger Issue Than Public Perception
This afternoon, I sat across the table from three leaders of a non-profit organization that my marketing firm is donating work to. We typically donate a few jobs to nonprofits each year, and this particular nonprofit was an excellent candidate for video marketing. The...
Grace Revealed: Finding God’s Strength in Any Crisis
When I lived in Seattle, the church I attended ran small groups where several people would share their life stories and allow other group members and leaders to speak into their stories and bring the gospel into their lives. Through this process, many people,...
World View: Seeking Grace and Truth in Our Common Life
Since the advent of blogging, books in column format have become much more accepted. They're short, they're easy to read, and they're unobtrusive. However, they're also generally sporadic. The authors have a hard time staying on track or keeping to the main theme-...
Forensic Faith: A Homicide Detective Makes the Case for a More Reasonable, Evidential Christian Faith
When I picked up Forensic Faith, I thought I was getting a catchy Christian book, that was going to make some clever parallels between police work and faith, not a the writings of an author who actually have worked in homicide for most of his career. I was totally...
Getting Jesus Wrong: Giving Up Spiritual Vitamins and Checklist Christianity
I couldn’t read Matt Johnson’s book without associating him with my time at Mars Hill church in Seattle, Washington. Although it’s been several years since our church fell apart due to sinful leadership, I’m a slow processor and many of my feelings remain unresolved...
Create. Disciple. Design.
I’ve always viewed myself as a creator, long before that was ever my job description. Now, I’m hired by people to create brands that birth new companies, and concepts that birth new businesses. When I came up with the name of this blog, “creation” was something that happened when I wrote, but I think the goal here has always been to use creativity to influence, influence to connect, and connection to build new communities. Join me, you’re welcome here!
Author, creative director, husband, dad, and Jesus follower.
