The Gospel is Absurd

Brennan Manning just passed away a week or so ago. In honor of his life, I thought I’d share one of my favorite quotes from him. I LOVE this quote from Brennan Manning’s book, The Furious Longing of God (pages 124-126). It’s a lot of what I’m trying to say in my new book Renegade, but…

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Mr. Christian Car Guy

My new book, Renegade: Your Faith Isn’t Meant To Be Safe, came out two weeks ago! With my previous two books one of the coolest things I was able to do was partner with churches by offering them a powerful series inspired by the book. Churches all over the country did the series and were…

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Hitchcock: Do You Remember The Fun We Had?

Recently saw Hitchcock on an airplane. It’s the story behind the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous movie Psycho. Turns out movie execs were not excited about making the movie, feeling like it was beneath them because it was just horror schlock and too racy. Hitchcock, however, was dead-set on making the movie, and decided to put…

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Stale Cookies

Recently someone brought a bag of Oatmeal Raisin Cookies from a grocery store bakery to an event at Verve. Few were eaten, so they were left in our building. The next day I was working when I noticed the bag. As they were from a grocery store I didn’t have high expectations, but I was…

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You Can Picture Something Different

Here’s an excerpt from my new book, Renegade: Your Faith Isn’t Meant To Be Safe. We want to live sacrificial lives, but we tend to be selfish creatures. We want to live deep lives, but more often we find ourselves skimming life’s surface. We want beautiful lives, but there’s a lot of ugliness inside of…

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