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, [...]

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud [...]

Do not abandon yourselves to despair.  We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. -Pope John Paul II Do you ever find yourself abandoning hope in the moments chaos and despair?  Do you find yourself ever waking in the middle of the night and not knowing how you’re going to get through the [...]

I think sometimes regular people like you and me can put ourselves in the awkward position of comparing ourselves to others, especially those who have gone before us.  We might compare our mundane life with the glamorous version of another’s life.  For example, some might say, “Francis was clearly holier than me, so there’s no way I [...]

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 [...]

“Take your son, your only son Isaac, the one you love…” Genesis 22.2 There once was a man and his wife. This man was told to leave his family and go out on an adventure to a different land far, far away.  As an incentive, this barren couple was promised a child.  Yet, seasons came, and [...]

There once was a holy man who was well liked.  He was respected, people listened to him.  Then God, as usual, decided to throw a curveball.  He told this person to go far away, go to a town that he hated.  He told this man to go visit a people whom he despised.  This man [...]

“The person who fails the most usually wins.” -Seth Godin My goal for today is to take a risk. How often do I take a risk, knowing that my venture very well could fall flat on its face? Not too often.  Other than periodically trying to take Asia in the board game Risk, I am [...]

There is never a good time to start something. What I have learned these past few months is that there will always be something else to do, something that might be easier than the task at hand.  Excuses will always arise  I encountered this again when I read Jesus telling people to quit putting things [...]