Jeremy Riley: In a few words

What do you fear? Do you fear commitment? How about spiders? Perhaps it’s failure? I can tell you what I fear, I fear starting. If you have ever had a dream, some unfulfilled vision, then my friends, Jon Acuff’s book START might be up your alley. If you have ever wanted to do something exceptional, [...]

Seminary has finally come to an end for me, which means that I am now able to read whatever I want.  But with great power, comes great responsibility to read through the book list I’ve compiled.  So I decided to take a dive into the books of the popular and controversial Rob Bell (who now [...]

“You are not yet who you are supposed to be.” Phew!  What a relief.   Are you stuck with labels given to you justly or unjustly?  Perhaps you have been called a loser, loner, liar, or loon.  Well, I have something to tell you: Craig Groeschel has some good news for you!  God knows who [...]

When I feel like I’m in a rut, after reading how a follower of Christ ought to act towards others (blasted Gospels and Epistles!), I often times get really discouraged.  God wants me to be at “100%” to be righteous and awesome, but I feel like I’m at a “1” on the Christ-like scale. While [...]

I once heard a Jewish speaker and a Christian man on two separate occurrences speak about the necessity of being good.  If you want to get right with God, then you need to be more good and less bad.  Not a bad system, right? Personally, I like to think that I’m good.  I like to [...]

Have you ever had one of those experiences where the normal suddenly becomes something else?  Where the average turns out to be above average and the ordinary is replaced by something special?  When the coffee appointment you casually went to turned out to be a deeply enriching experience and the conversation turned into a deep [...]

Let me just admit before we begin that I’m a big Jon Acuff fan  (for those of you who said, “Jon who?” check out his website).  And just in case you haven’t been a reader of Acuff’s blogs, they’re pretty great. He has two blogs on his site.  The first is centered around pursuing your dreams [...]

“The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant” is a pilgrim tale. It’s a tale designed for people who want to go places and make their life count. This tale centers around the journey of a grandfather (Antonio) and his grandson (Julio), with the life lessons that come about during this time. Antonio brought his [...]

The world is moving into ghettos.  No, not those types of ghettos.  The ghettos that place a border around people with differing opinions, and differing beliefs.  I certainly know that throughout history we have had enclaves where only certain types of people lived together.  Catholics on this side of the street, and this ethnicity near [...]

I found an interesting post over at Donald Miller’s blog on the importance of reading.  In it, guest poster Justin Zoradi shared these stats from the Jenkins Group: 33% of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42% of college graduates never read another book after college. 80% of [...]