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A Kinder Garden

“Upon my word, he’s not a fraud after all; he’s a thinker, a brilliant fellow!  They ought to put up a monument in his honor.  He’s a combination of every variety of up-to-date rottenness: lawyer, doctor, official, accountant.”  – Shabelski from Anton Chekhov’s ‘Ivanov’ play. Christian hasn’t been sleeping well; he’s recently received two new [...]

I Must Grow Up

I have to grow up.  I have to.  There’s simply a profound reality in me right now that speaks to my heart and says, “Dan, wake up.”  I have been sleeping a bit ever since I stopped full time ministry as a pastor working on staff at a church.  What have I been doing?  I [...]

Human Trafficking

I dare you not to be moved after watching this.  There are pains that abound in our lives every day, and if we aren’t careful, we focus so much on ourselves that we forget the light of Christ isn’t to be put under the bed of our hearts. Filed under: Thoughts Tagged: amp, hearts, human-rights, [...]

Take Care with God’s Word

Little bites savor the food to such a degree that even things perhaps not so tasty can be chewed to the point of extracting every morsel.  Imagine being insatiably hungry; famished, having worked out in the field for far too long or in some camp, perhaps because of some crime committed.  These camps you work [...]

Getting Over MySELF – Rocky Mayo

I have been encouraged and convicted in so many ways by Dan Parkins as a friend, pastor and author.  So, if your friend asks you to write on his awesome blog that has profoundly impacted you do you say yes? Yes.   Do I worry that everyone reading will wish I hadn’t bothered? Yes.  However, that [...]

In Your Element for FREE!

Amidst life’s struggles, we oftentimes focus on what is wrong in life, rather than what is good.  We forget the fact that our Head, our Christ, is in heaven, and therefore, as Christ’s body, we are “living” there as well.  Where the head is, there the heart should be also, and “In Your Element” really [...]

Singing God’s Grace in my Liver Results

I feel exhausted at the moment.  I wish there was something profound for me to say to encourage even my own soul, to speak life to it, but all that I can do is cling to the hope I have in Christ.  This one thing remains for me to know; Christ, and the power of [...]

Awaiting Blood Results

I’m awaiting, as patiently as possible, blood results today.  I should be receiving them shortly.  It’s difficult for me for I am weak to say the least.  But I will rest and trust and look not to what I cannot see in the future, but stay in the present; in the here and now.  This [...]

Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde

Paul states rather emphatically in Romans 7.21-25, “So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.  For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind [...]

Don’t Be Deceived

If you have a few minutes, please take a look at this video.  It has convicted me to my core and I’d like to travel to San Francisco in November to the conference.  Hopefully I’ll get there.  But if not, this is still a good reminder and things to contemplate.  This is a video of [...]