The fault in our religion is our religion. Who’s right, who’s wrong? Condemnation Debate Righteousness RELIGION As I write this post I tread with caution, knowing that what I have to say may not be every person’s opinion. However I don’t come saying I’m right and this is what you must believe. It’s just what […]
Making beauty from the ashes has never been as real as it is to me now. One week ago half of the camp I work in burned to the ground. About 800 people having lost everything…again. Many families fleeing with nothing but their children in their arms. Many people unable to grab even their most […]
Maybe it’s better, to live our life watching our feet walk a path that we never bother to look up to see where it’s leading. Then we would never have to make those decisions that matter, you know which direction to turn, or where to stop and admire. Maybe it’s easier. Maybe easier is better. […]
For many of us we dream of the future, having a steady job, a beautiful family, and a home of our own. Some with a picket fence on the outside and some with a basketball hoop in the driveway but a place to call ours nonetheless. So what is home? A place? OR A feeling? […]
For some uncertainty is daunting. The unknown can literally take control of your mind and twist your thoughts into your greatest fears paralyzing you. What if? What if the unknown does hold your greatest fears, of failure, loss, or letdown. Maybe where you are isn’t satisfying but at least it’s not as bad as the […]
I sit here. All I can do is sit, sit and think. I think about how unfair it all is, I think about how broken they are, I think about how broken I am. All I can do is think. I can’t get the images out of my mind, from the fight, from the crammed […]
A city of freedom, sex is legal, drugs are legal, people come from all over to live in a place with so much openness. What they don’t realize is the laws may allow them to be “free” but it’s a false freedom, they fall deep into the unrelenting hands of an addictive lifestyle. Our team […]
In walked a woman gripping her cane, bent over and moving very slowly. It was the end of the last day and we were closing everything down. The woman wouldn’t be able to see the doctor but we told her we could pray for her. We prayed a prayer of healing over this woman. She […]
“God will provide” if you’ve ever been to church or been around Christians this is a frequent term you will hear. However if you really asked those people sitting in the pewes reading their Bibles on a daily basis you would soon come to find that most of them don’t really rely on God to […]
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Carnival in Brazil, and Carnival in Mazatlán, Mexico. In order those are the three biggest parties in the world leading up to Fat Tuesday and then Ash Wednesday. For the past eleven years YWAM Mazatlán has been a part of a vision, that God would come into this country and […]