Friend, I want to be somebody, and the fact that I am somebody is never enough. A few days after deciding to shut down Ignaria, I caught myself already sketching the next venture—another chance to prove competence, another way to feel like I matter. The work itself may be legitimate. The drive underneath it is something else. I wrote about that restless ache, about why “you are enough” misses the point, and about the only place I’ve found that actually holds the weight. On Being Somebody →...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Friend, I was raised as a missionary kid, going to church at least three times each week, so I’m fairly attuned to the threads of thinking going around the Church. We react to current issues. We disagree about doctrine. We apply Scripture to the news and to daily life. Much of our current writing and teaching can be reduced to slogans or memes recording our outrage about moral, political, and social transgressions against Christian values. Don’t get me wrong — that outrage is often justified....
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Friend, I sat with Owen’s first chapter again after sending you the sample. Two things struck me. First, the language can be hard. Words like “intendment,” or “improve” in the older sense of making something clear and applicable. You have to slow down. That is not a failure of the text — it is the cost of reading a seventeenth-century teacher carefully. Second, the argument is remarkably clear. Owen cuts to the bone: mortification from self-strength, for self-righteousness, is the soul of...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Friend, As of last Saturday, Resurrection Publishing launched. Times like this are always exciting and nerve-wracking for me. I can spiral into self-doubt — the “who am I?” questions that lead to fear, shame, and eventually hiding. That’s one reason I’m starting with a series on putting sin to death, and with John Owen. I fall short of my ideals. Almost always. Since I asked Jesus to be my Lord and Savior after getting caught with my hand in a cookie jar (literally), a very long time ago, why...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Friend, How does the believer put sin to death? I gathered these four voices because this is where the rubber meets the road. Walking in undefeated sin breeds shame and despair — and when one pastor or leader falls, thousands question the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. When our theological foundations feel thin, it helps to study with teachers who stood on that question before you — not re-invent the faith alone. That’s the work of Resurrection Publishing: one hard question of the...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Friend, Resurrection Publishing’s first Member Edition series is available now — official publication August 1, 2026. Own the classic. Study with the Church across the centuries. Theme 1 asks one question — How does the believer put sin to death? — and answers with four voices: John Cassian, The Institutes Isaac of Nineveh, Mystic Treatises Lorenzo Scupoli, The Spiritual Combat John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Hardcover $39 · Ebook $19. You keep the book forever. Each new...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Friends, I'm writing to you from an unusual place this Christmas week - a Waffle House in Germantown at 3AM. I woke up early. Since everyone else was asleep, I extricated myself from the apartment as quietly as I could. Daisy the dog greeted me enthusiastically, and the door chimed as I went out, but I don't think anyone stirred. I drove to the nearest open business, a Waffle House in Germantown. There I met a truck driver who'd had an accident the day before when someone swerved in front of...
9 months ago • 2 min read