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May 14, 2015
If You Aren’t Feeling Friction, You Aren’t Moving Forward
We overcome the mountains in our lives by fighting our way onward and upward, not by floating downstream.
May 13, 2015
Baby, You’re NOT A Firework…
There’s a popular song by Katy Perry called Firework and I think I’ve always had a problem with it. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate it—it’s certainly inspirational. But I’ve always felt like the message falls so dramatically short of the truth. Here are some of the lyrics from that song: Baby, you’re a firework Come […]
April 18, 2015
40 Days in the Wilderness
My friend, Paul Cardall, is a talented, best-selling musician with an incredible life story. He was born with congenital heart disease and lived for thirty years with half a heart until 2008 when it began to fail. After waiting for a heart for over a year, Paul miraculously received a heart transplant and has continued to produce beautiful […]
April 17, 2015
Are You Exhausted By Faith?
“Does faith have to be this exhausting?” Those words echoed through my ears as I watched FREETOWN, a new movie about a group of missionaries caught in the middle of a war. The film is based on a true story and takes place in Monrovia, Liberia in 1990, at the beginning of the first Liberian civil war—one […]
April 7, 2015
The Priceless Pearl
The story is told of a man who hears a legend about a priceless pearl… I’ve traveled a lot this year and because my wife is in grad school I’ve had to go alone more often than not. On my last trip, I thought a lot about Kim and decided to write her a letter for […]
March 22, 2015
Our Most Valuable Resource
If I were to ask you what our most valuable resource is, what would you say? Money, gold, jewels, oil? Actually, it none of these things. In fact, the answer may surprise you. It’s water. Water is our most valuable resource—all life depends upon it. Many of the world’s deepest problems (poverty, disease, conflicts over land) can […]
March 21, 2015
Monica Lewinsky’s TED Talk and The Scarlet Letter
This may be the best TED talk I’ve ever heard—and that’s not an exaggeration… Between 1995-1997, Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, had an affair with President Bill Clinton. When the relationship became public, Monica Lewinsky was made the center of a political scandal that rocked the United States. Some people have very negative opinions about Monica Lewinsky, but given the potency […]
March 9, 2015
Music That Can Heal the Depressed Heart
“Music has the ability to reach someone’s soul.” -Jhonny K Although I’ve never seen Him, I firmly believe that God exists. For me, one of the most compelling evidences for divinity is music. There is something about music that seems to transcend mortality; it expresses the inexpressible. And I have long held the belief that God […]
March 3, 2015
The Journey Home
It’s amazing how paintings and poems can speak to our hearts. I recently read the poem “Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy and was struck by the symbolic meaning of “Ithaka.” For those of you who are unfamiliar with the word, Ithaka is the home of the legendary Odysseus, the hero of the Odyssey. Throughout the […]
March 2, 2015
Lift Another, Lift Yourself
Today’s episode of Keep Moving Forward was inspired by the biography of Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson. Franklin once said that to serve man is to serve God—and it’s so true! But this timeless truth goes even deeper than that, because I’ve learned that as we labor to lift other people, we also lift ourselves…
