Fighting Lions: Have You Embraced Your Identity?

Fighting Lions: Have You Embraced Your Identity?: Learning your identity is a crucial first step, but it's only a step. You can know who you are and still fail to do anything with it. Th...

Pr. 18.24: Forged, by Will

Pr. 18.24: Forged, by Will: I've written about this before, but I don't think it was on this blog. The process of making a traditional Japanese katana has been ...

Fighting Lions: To My Readers...

Fighting Lions: To My Readers...: I want to apologize to you all for the inconsistent nature of my posting over the past few weeks. My life has seen some unexpected complicat...

Fighting Lions: Where Do You Draw Your Identity?

Fighting Lions: Where Do You Draw Your Identity?: As I began this search for my identity I had to first begin by looking at the things I had let define me. I'm going to share part of wha...

Fighting Lions: Finding the Meaning of My Name

Fighting Lions: Finding the Meaning of My Name: I had learned my name, and God had reinforced that identity over and over, but even thought I had that, something was still missing. For yea...

Fighting Lions: How I Learned My Name

Fighting Lions: How I Learned My Name: The day before my oldest daughter turned one I was reading the story of Samson as part of a blog project I was working on. As I read the sto...

Fighting Lions: New Name

Fighting Lions: New Name: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden mann...

Fighting Lions: Finding Your Identity, Question 2

Fighting Lions: Finding Your Identity, Question 2: After the wounds have been dealt with, the false identities have been identified, we're ready to begin finding our real identity. Before...

Pr. 18.24: Pursuing Truth is Often...Pointless by Jacob

Pr. 18.24: Pursuing Truth is Often...Pointless by Jacob: Seriously, what is the Point? 
So. Much. Controversy. Who is right? Who is wrong? Who has the edge on truth? Who has the exhaustive list ...

Fighting Lions: Finding Your Identity, Question 1

Fighting Lions: Finding Your Identity, Question 1: The search for identity begins by identifying the false identities you have been given. Before we can build something stable, we have to cle...

Fighting Lions: Identity, Why it Matters

Fighting Lions: Identity, Why it Matters: Everyone who walks the face of the earth is searching for meaning. We need a purpose, and without one we merely exist, going through the mot...

Fighting Lions: Wounds, Healing, and the Future

Fighting Lions: Wounds, Healing, and the Future: In Wild at Heart , John Eldredge says, "I don’t trust a man who hasn’t suffered; I don’t let a man get close to me who hasn’t faced his...

Fighting Lions: Lessons from My Healing

Fighting Lions: Lessons from My Healing: God is about healing and restoration. He makes a perfect world that humans screw up, and He immediately goes about the work of bringing abou...

Fighting Lions: Lessons from My Wounds

Fighting Lions: Lessons from My Wounds: We've all got wounds. No matter how much we hate them, try to ignore them, or even deny that they're there, we all carry a wound, an...

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Healing Part 2: Owning Freedom...

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Healing Part 2: Owning Freedom...: "Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." I thought I knew what that meant. I thought it was about not being afraid t...

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Healing Part 1: Freedom

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Healing Part 1: Freedom: I had gotten to the point where I was ok. I had accepted the fact that we weren't going to be together. I had stopped writing to her, in...

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Impact

Fighting Lions: The Wound from Her, Impact: This wound may have impacted me in the most significant way. I was really into this girl, poured my heart out in letters that I never sent h...