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I obviously do not have a March Madness bracket because I missed the fact that the championship is tomorrow night, Monday, right smack-dab in the middle of our conversation. So just in case you want to partake, let’s postpone to Thursday.

Thursday, April 9th, 6:30 pm MT/8:30 pm ET

You can just use the same Google Meet link below for Thursday.

And on behalf…

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I obviously do not have a March Madness bracket because I missed the fact that the finals are on Monday right smack-dab in the middle of our conversation. So just in case, let’s postpone to Thursday.

Thursday, April 9th, 6:30 pm MT/8:30 pm ET

You can just use the same Google Meet link below for Thursday.

And on behalf of my brother, go Michigan!

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Friends,

I am sure this month’s article looked familiar—like identical to what I taught last conversation. After we talked, it dawned on me that this month we’d be smack dab in Holy Week. And I felt it might be a meaningful reflection to share with everyone, as it has stayed with me. So for our conversation this month, I thought we could do an “Ask me a…

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“And by his wounds we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5

“Goodness will shine on you like the sun, with healing in its rays. You will jump around, like calves from the stall.” Malachi 4:2 (Expanded Bible)

What gets you through your doubts? I don’t know how often you question the existence of God or the story of Jesus, but I’ve come to terms with head-scratching doubt as a regular part of my spiritual life. It ebbs and flows for many reasons and I stopped trying to rush through it. But one thing that often ...

Friends,

Forgive me that this is late in getting to you. My family endured a few waves of all the nasty sicknesses going around this winter. We are on the mend now. But I’m sorry we had to bump this conversation into March.

Nevertheless, I am glad we get to continue our talks on the healing of sexual abuse. I will be so curious to hear your thoughts and…

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“We were talking about you on Monday. For a long time actually.”

“Oh yeah?” I said. My gut tightened even more than it already was from the plank I was doing.

Matt and Ashley are fellow regulars at my 6 am CrossFit class. We are a ragtag group of folks just trying to work out our health and mental health. And though everyone’s half awake with little to say at that hour, we’ve bonded. None of us picked each other, per se. But sweating out our stress and struggles and coming to the end of ourselves ...

Good people,

Here’s my chance to wish you a happy new year and yet this wild year has already held so much. I hesitate to say happy. But truly may this year be blessed for you and us all.

This month we made a really welcomed shift towards the healing process of sexual abuse. Sorry if the title gave you a case of pop-psych hives. I assure you I don’t inte…

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“You cannot heal what you don’t reveal” Jay Z channeling Dan Allender

“The truth will set you free.” Jesus

“But the Spirit intercedes along with our groans that cannot be expressed in words.” Paul

Here’s a little story that has nothing to do with sexual abuse, I assure you, but everything to do with how we heal.

A few years ago, I hauled all three of my young boys to their favorite place in the world at the time—the iPad store! While an Apple genius hunched over my broken phone, they played in the...

Hey friends,

Well, well, our final conversation of the year! It has been such a great year with you all. I am so grateful for your financial support of my writing and these discussions together.

We are making our way through this series on sexual abuse. And we just finished the hardest part, the abuse cycle itself. Deep exhale! The next two posts will cov…

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“Streetwise people are smarter in this regard than law-abiding citizens. They are on constant alert, looking for angles, surviving by their wits. I want you to be smart in the same way—but for what is right—using every adversity to stimulate you to creative survival, to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you’ll live, really live, and not complacently just get by on good behavior.” Luke 16:8,9 MSG

We need to talk about wolves. This whole post will be about wolves actually. Becau...