Sin is a prominent theme in The Bible. It’s often used to represent the darkness in our life, and the role of sin is punctuated with the pinnacle of Jesus’s life: He dies for our sins. I’ve come to recognize sin not as mistakes we make – but as the universal challenges and hardships we …
Reflections on God
When I wonder about God, I wonder what fish wonder about water. Do they think about water? Do they appreciate water? Do they challenge the existence of water? Do they realize water surrounds them? Connects them? Do they even need to know water is essential for their life? What is God? Humanity’s relationship with God …
The Economic Case For A Stronger Creative Class
For 2017 to be a banner year, we need more than pension and HRO reform. Jacksonville need’s a stronger creative class. Jacksonville’s economy is showing promise. Mayor Lenny Curry’s tenacity suggests he will prevail in pension reform. Additionally, his leadership is courting big businesses into our community. The arrival of these businesses equates to additional …
Visiting Prague
Here are a few observations from spending Christmas in Prague, Czech Republic. Christmas Carp Prague does an incredible job celebrating Christmas. The markets and decorations adorning ancient architecture offers the best Christmas experience in the world. However, they have one of the most peculiar Christmas traditions in the world too. After Thanksgiving, every family buys …
Visiting Prague: Anonymous Bar
On our first night in Prague, we went to a bar we found in a New York Times article. Edward, the owner and tender of the bar, was zealous about cocktails. He prepared Lauren a sour using Czech Pear Brandy, and he made me the best Manhattan of my life with Nikka whiskey. Edward was …
Visiting Copenhagen
Danish is an impossibly hard-to-understand language. Everyone is walking around speaking gibberish. It reminds of old video games where the characters talk with a bunch of syllables instead of actual words. All these years later, I’m thinking maybe they were just speaking Danish in those games. Here are a few other observations from visiting Copenhagen, Denmark. …
Traffic & Traction: Online Marketing
Web traffic fuels your business. Without traffic, you have no visitors to convert. With no conversions, your website is a billboard in a crowd of signs. The importance of traffic is easy to understand, but the process of gaining traffic can be confusing. Visitor count is one of the most common misunderstandings. If your website …
Short Story: Finding Grace
Hope floats like a buoy. Most of the time, it gently rocks up and down, but other times, when storms roll through, hope can drown in your heart. This was one of those times. Mark’s hope was dead. Credit card bills were piling up next to medical bills. His phone beeped incessantly with voicemails. He …
A Small Seaside Thought
When you’re standing at the foot of the ocean, you’re occupying an ancient space. The wind dancing on your skin. The rhythm of waves echoing in your ears. The salt gently burning your nose. It’s a moment we share with the hundreds of thousands of generations that came before us. …
Dream Log: A Cat
Let’s just say there was a cat. He was wearing a hip-hop outfit. He had on a leash, but it failed to contain his agenda. We were in a different world where you could hop from planet to planet. I don’t remember the cat’s name, but I remember, when I lost him, I was very …