Steak for the Soul — All Blogs

It's the middle of the night. As most the world around me sleeps I can't help but sit up seeking a bit of solace. Some calm amidst the coming chaos. I lay here looking up at the stars, praying, just me and God, and something was laid on my heart that I feel like I should share with you. "Be faithful and I will bless you. Be holy and I will pour out My blessings upon you. Uncertain times lay ahead, but trust in Me and I will see you through, in the same way I did the children of...

No one wants to be crushed. To be beaten back and forth by the winds of life, just trying to make sense of the chaos that's in front of you. I was sixteen the first time I visited Israel. It did something to me, something inside of me that I'll never be able to explain. Just walking where Jesus once walked, seeing all the places I had read so much about... suddenly all those stories from Sunday School weren't just stories. They were real. But there was one moment that stuck with me... this ancient olive press. I never thought...

You may feel like the best of you has passed. Like your greatest moments are behind you. But only because you staple your understanding of greatness to things that fade. What if you could believe once again that who you might become tomorrow is meant to overshadow everything you've been up until today? Greatness is a chosen absolute. It doesn't dwindle or wither, flicker or fail. It simply is or it is not. It is not an achievement or a single moment, a title or prize. But rather a constant state of being, and one you must choose. For if...

The hardest thing a man can do is the right thing... consistently. To wrangle his desires despite how he feels, to balance his impulses regardless where his current distraction is pulling him. To understand there will be no applause for it, very little gain in it and few who will stand beside him through it. Knowing he'll do it alone, over and over again, for a lifetime, all with the hope that somewhere along the way, doing the right thing might just be enough to help fix what’s broken in the world. There will be days he grows tired, days...