The resources presented on this site and companion blogs are for those Christians who have lost the excitement about the life promised by the Bible and in the Church, and now live in quiet resignation a life that seems hopelessly stalled. If there was a cosmic grade book you have mainly "C's", "D's" and an occasional "F" or so you think. Weariness over repeated failures has lead to a quiet life living out the basics of the Christian life: attend church, give some money, try to be a nice person, and work on a project or two, while letting go of holiness, joy, obedience, and even hope. Are you unique?

No, the stats are in, an overwhelming numbers of Christ followers identify that they are falling short of their expectations as Christians. Few describe their Christian lives as vibrate and satisfying. The values, beliefs, and behaviors present in the culture at large and condemned by the Church are just as prevalent in the Church. Broken relationships, addictive behaviors, abandonment to pleasure and self interest are destroying serious minded Christians. Leaders who have decried sin are captive to it. Against this universally accepted erosion, the church has responded with hundreds if not thousands of self-help books, seminars, sermons, classes and recovery groups. The call to obedience is loud and sometimes shaming. "Read the Bible more, choose to be obedient and just do it," was the challenge of one Church leader gave to a group of 20,000 men. The advice is basically the same: read the Bible … do the truth. Another segment of the Church promises spiritual transformation if the seeker just accepts their religious experience or deliverance ministry. I am not disputing that each program has its miracle stories and testimonials, and it is true that for some simply hearing the truth changes them, or going to the alter for prayer delivers them, but not all. Leaving many to wonder why they remain unchanged while others to go away healed. This material is for you if the normal tools offered for Christian growth, healing and transformation have not worked.

I do not want to give the wrong impression. God has given us the Bible, prayer, worship, community, and the various activities of the Holy Spirit so that we might be changed into the image of Jesus (Romans 8:29). In that, what I have made available is the same message spoken through out the Church. The tools God has provided are not the problem, but we have failed to properly target them. The Bible identifies God's target. It is our heart. Rather than allowing the truth of scripture, the intimacy of prayer and worship, or the counsel of friends to impact our hearts we dissipate their power on the surface of our lives. We confuse knowing the truth with treasuring the truth, emotional experience of prayer and worship with transforming intimacy, and the human pleasure of being together with the biblical iron sharpens iron reality of community. If someone knows the verses and can quote them, we believe the task is done, but what about teaching people to treasure the word in their hearts. Dave weeps throughout the worship service, and leaves only to explode when he gets home. We are stunned and do not know what else to offer. Didn't he have an encounter with God during worship? We throw the words around so easily crushing the broken and exiling them to live outside the camp. I believe, no I know that there is much more that we can offer to those (maybe you) who are unable to make the next step from information and experience to healing, growth and transformation. The key is found in the biblical teaching about the human heart. My prayer is that these resources help you gain the perspective and develop the skills that will healing, grow and transform your heart.