We recently created a brochure highlighting our Year of Gratitude. Each of us was asked to write a few words about why we are thankful to serve with FaithSearch. It was an exciting though challenging opportunity to distill my thoughts: we had a strict word limit.

Here is what I wrote:

I’m grateful to be part of the FaithSearch team since 2001. Recently, I found an old journal from 1977, when I was exploring what to do with my life. I was caught by my use of the word “evidence,” especially given what I do today in my Gospel-with-evidence ministry at FaithSearch:

I’ve always liked to learn. I’ve been good at formal proof & argument–evidence, etc. … but how–in what capacity–Scripture? Science? How can I best use my mind to glorify God? … I pray for knowledge of & the desire to seek out the way God wants me to go.

That was forty years ago, even as FaithSearch was being born across the country. I studied journalism, worked in television, advertising, computers, Internet, and ministry. Now I am grateful to be here, where all those twists and turns are being used by God at FaithSearch, in answer to my prayers.

It has been a while since I communicated about my ongoing ministry with FaithSearch. It is NOT that I haven’t been doing ongoing ministry. It’s that I have been doing so much that I have had to prioritize projects. Here are some recent highlights: [Read more…]

Almost two years ago, I wrote about the joy I share when I hear—either directly or indirectly—from people who have been impacted by our ministry and the resources we produce (see “Sharing in the Joy!“, from March 1, 2013). I have recently been blessed again to hear some amazing accounts. One reader wrote, “I read as though I was trying to quench a thirst I never knew I had.”

His story starts out like a love story, yet you may not be “surprised” how it ends.  [Read more…]