In January of 2017, I began to seek God and pray specifically for certain spiritual gifts, in a very intentional way, unlike I had before. This was triggered because not long before that, I noticed as I was reading through 1 Corinthians about spiritual gifts, that God wants us to desire them (1 Corinthians 14:1). Well, when I coupled that with many other passages, like Psalm 37:4 which says...

Back in January of this year (2018), I got a call from my wife Jessica after she returned home with Asher from his six month checkup. I could tell right away that there was some bad news by the tone in her voice. When Asher was born, he had a soft spot on the top of his head, like most babies, but he also had a large soft spot in the back of his head. All babies have it at some point in their...

For almost four years, I suffered from chronic neck pain. It was initiated when I hit my head on the ceiling of a small airplane, during a moment of violent turbulence, back in 2012. For the first couple years, the pain would come and go, typically with a max pain level of five or so (on a one to ten scale) but then got worse in 2015 and much worse in 2016. It got so bad that I couldn’t turn my...