Will You Become a Patron?
I began blogging in 2013 not knowing what I was doing. The reason I began was simple. I wanted to begin a new career as a writer. And, I needed to learn how to write. I wrote and published my first...
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Identity, Purpose, and Belonging with Joe Elliott Founder of Catalyst...
Joe Elliott knew that he needed to do something different if he were to reach young adults. During a brain-storming session with several other youth pastors, many great ideas rose to the surface. But...
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3 Reasons Foster and Adoptive Families Will Isolate
What You Need to Do to Reverse It In a world where technology connects people in more ways over any distance than in other time in history, we might be more isolated than ever. We seem to have lost our...
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How Your Gifts and Talents Determine Your Purpose with Joe Sierra [Podcast 34]
We make a big deal out of finding our purpose in life. We want to have significance and do something great. But we can easily overlook what is right in front of us. God created all of us with talents,...
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5 Reasons Why We Should Be Better at Hospitality
At a recent small group gathering that we call community group we discussed this scripture verse, “Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.”...
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What Happens When One Person Stands Up?
In 2004, Bishop Aaron Blake stood before his congregation with his adopted sons on his mind. He began sharing with his church that over 30,000 children were in the foster care system in Texas and about...
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Petra—A Preschool for Foster & Underserved Children with Phil, Christal &...
When a preschool told a local foster family that their foster daughter could not attend, this family decided to create a solution not only for themselves but other families. From that experience the...
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If You Can’t Foster or Adopt 10 Kids
Stand Up for at Least One Let’s admit it. A stereotype exists for foster families. When I say foster, most picture the family that drives a large van or nowadays something like a Sprinter, has boxes of...
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Dad to Dad Interview with Marshall Lyles [Podcast 37]
I invited my friend Marshall Lyles over to record a podcast as a part of the Dad to Dad series. To remind you, this series is me and another adoptive or foster dad talking about being a dad to a child...
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5 Insightful Suggestions to Help You Father Well
I recently began a podcast series entitled Dad to Dad. In these interviews I sit down with another adoptive dad and talk about what it is like to be an adoptive dad—our shortcomings, funny stories, and...
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Did You Miss These Top 10 Blogs from 2017?
If you are like me and like to browse Top 10 lists, here are the top 10 blogs from 2017 on my website. I don’t include blogs written from earlier years in the top 10, but I will put links to the top 3...
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My Motivation for 2018
You won’t find things like bringing a child into your family as your own, spending time with a lonely widow or homeless man, or visiting someone in prison on too many 2018 resolution or goal lists. I...
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What’s Happening at Missional Lifestyle and His Hands His Feet in 2018
Happy New Year! I enjoyed our holiday season, but I am ready to get back into a groove. It seemed like I was in the holi-daze from Thanksgiving through New Years. We did our annual beach week during...
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Does God Speak Your Language? An interview with Brian Smith about Davar...
Do you like to hear a good story? Does your family tell the same stories over and over even passing some down from generation to generation? Since the beginning of time, people have learned by hearing...
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Warning: You Might Be Dancing the Wrong Dance
Danielle and I took dance lessons several years ago which we both enjoyed. But let me tell you learning how to dance with a partner is very challenging unless you’re just a natural. I am one of those...
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This One Thing Is Necessary to Live a Missional Life
We see the world through a limited lens. We only know what we know. And if we always look at things from the same viewpoint, what we know and understand probably has no chance of changing. In today’s...
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We All Need a Family [Podcast 40]
I know that children shelters and orphanages serve a purpose, but we all need a family to help us heal and be the best we can be. In today’s episode I refer to a story a friend told me about their...
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A Review of “God and Money” by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer
I recently read, God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by Gregory Baumer and John Cortines – Paperback, given to me by a good friend. The authors, John Cortines and...
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What Do Our Missionaries Need? [Podcast 41]
We send missionaries all over the world, many into locations that involve danger or at least extreme isolation. Even missionaries in places they can serve openly face challenges that we might not...
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5 Reasons Foster Parents Need to Attach to their Foster Child
You bring a child or sibling group into your home for who knows how long. You don’t know very much about them. You work at creating as much calm as you can in the midst of a new normal for everyone....
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