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Blog post from blog.thejourneyonline.com on August 10th, 2016.

In case there are some people in our church who missed the memo over this past summer, I recently partook in an 9 week Sabbatical and ...

I have a friend who considers himself to be a “cynical optimist”. I’m not exactly sure if that really is a thing, or just another fancy contradiction we’ve come up with to describe our complex persona...

Recently, an Atheist blog called “Rational Doubt” came across my FlipBoard newsfeed and I was intrigued by the headline so I decided to read the story. By the end of the article, I was just pissed off...

I’m not exactly sure that we are “destroying America”, but I do believe that we are setting up the next generation for failure, in turn harming our future by NOT setting them up for success.

Let me s...

In 1997, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple, one of his first actions was to clear out the company’s “museum” of old products and donate them to Stanford University. Jobs understood that Apple was stuc...

As a father of two, soon to be three, I often find myself learning life’s greatest lessons from the simplest moments. My 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son have an uncanny ability to remind me of...

Okay, so this will be a short post.  It is for all those "doubters" out there.  I don't mean the ones that live in a constant state of worry, anxiety or hopelessness - those people have other issues I...

Strange title? Maybe... or maybe not! I was reading in a small men's (men of all sizes actually) S.O.A.P bible study this morning Romans 8: 1-17. I recently purchased this amazing parallel bible that ...

 "The future of the church is not going to be built on implementing Best Practices, but on our willingness to attempt Better Experiments" - Will Mancini

I love this quote and it has stuck with me for...

It's ALL about the Signs A year or so ago when we were forced to remove our signs from our church building and property (during the week), we began to set more yard signs out in the community.  These ...

Have you ever considered that risk might actually equal freedom? That living a life at the edge of the unknown could be the most liberating experience we’ll ever have? This thought has been pressing o...

Does God Really Want Us to Be Efficient?

After spending an hour in a Google Docs tutorial on syncing calendars across devices, I was struck by how excited everyone was at the prospect of becoming mor...