Most females stop growing physically at age 15 and males stop growing at age 18. Our brains will continue to develop until age 25. So, by the time we reach 30 years old we have reached our peak in human physical and mental development. Yet, as Eugene Peterson points out, the most important growing up... Continue Reading →

To live a Grown Up life, you need the very spiritual life breath of God. Two striking moments in human history occured with God breathing something into existence. When God created the first man, scripture says that he “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” When Jesus has been raised from the dead and... Continue Reading →

How many verbal tricks and persuasive maneuvers do we use to try to influence people?  We try over emotionality, half truths, and flowery language to impress people and to get them to do what we want. People who have a gift for language, speaking, or writing can have a tremendous power over people. It is... Continue Reading →

The other day, I was spending time with God and started to think about how my prayers are nothing special, that there are parts of the Bible that I have never read, that I do a lot of talking to God but very little listening, and that my worship is often full of distraction and... Continue Reading →