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Do you really have faith?

When God called me to the mission field, I learned a very challenging but interesting lesson. He told me to leave behind everything I owned, my friends & family, and even my dog. I felt like God was saying that I needed to walk away from the old and into something else He had for…

Loving Jesus VS Being a Christian

I woke up with this on my mind and it really was a message to me. But I decided to write it because I know it will impact many others that call themselves Christians. When I was 13 I gave my life to Jesus and started to call myself a Christian. I would pick up…

What would you tell them?

It’s amazing what happens when you open yourself up to be available to God! We had just pulled up to a village out in Malawi to do a medical clinic and to pray for anybody in that area that needed help. We brought a medical student to them, which for the village people it is…

For the love of Money

Growing up I was really into this group called Bone Thugs N Harmony. They were the pioneers of tongue twisting rap, where they would flow out super quick rhymes and make it sound really easy and smooth. It was actually pretty impressive! One year they came out with a song called “For the Love of…

New Zealand 2017 (UPDATE)

In 2014 I gave up my entire life and jumped on a plane not knowing where God would take me. All I know is that God said “GO”. What would that look like? How would life look when all your comfort is taken away and all I could do was to trust that God would…

I almost passed him by!

I was just out for a stroll on the streets of Wellington all by myself and my stomach started to growl. I was getting really hungry and was on a mission to find a place that was open late. As I turned a corner I passed a dirty homeless guy who was sitting on the…

Do you Believe?

Sometimes in life there will be a question that will get you thinking to a point that you might not be able to sleep at night. For me, I was watching this movie the other night and one simple question rocked my mind and started to challenge my very existence. In one of the opening…

My last $30

Being out here as a missionary, I have had to learn how to be content with nothing but at the same time have watched God do some amazing things. This morning I woke up with an agenda to get some pretty important things done. One was to go and get a warrant of fitness for…

Dodging Solicitors…

I was on a mission to find a gift for a friend back in NZ, but just wasn’t having any luck. He is all about America and loves everything about our amazing nation. So I thought, a tee shirt with the American flag would be an amazing gift for him. I started to drive store…

Christianese

Over the years, I have found that being in the church for any period that your speech and choice of words begin to change. Your vocabulary becomes filled with biblical words, phrases you hear people say, and other symbolic talks. This language is called Christianese, and it can be quite a useful language, especially in…