Drew Dyck on the Importance of Showing Up

Today, we have Drew Dyck return to The Way Home Podcast! Drew is a speaker, author, and acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers. We discuss believer’s burnout, faithfulness on the small scale, and Drew’s new book Just Show Up: How Small Acts of Faithfulness Change Everything (A Guide for Exhausted Christians). If you want to know more […]

The Way Home Podcast: Chad Poe on Preaching, Teaching, and Writing

Today, we have Chad Poe joining us on The Way Home podcast. Chad Poe is a pastor at Grace Bible Church, as well as the founder of the Throughline Cohort, helping individuals with their teaching and preaching. Today, we discuss speaking, writing, and pastoring, as well as his new book Esther: The Time is Now. If […]

The Way Home Podcast: Cole Claybourn On The State of Higher Education

Today, we have Cole Claybourn joining us on The Way Home podcast. Cole Claybourn is the education reporter for U.S. News & World Report and primarily focuses on higher education. He is on staff at Sports Spectrum where he is a contributor, writer, and producer of the networks podcast. Today, we discuss several things like the […]

The Way Home Podcast: Michael Sobolik on Foreign Policy and the Christian Response

Today, we have Michael Sobolik joining us on The Way Home podcast. Michael Sobolik is a Fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, he has served on national security teams, and has drafted legislation on China, Russia, India, Taiwan, North Korea, and Cambodia.  Today, we discuss questions like “how should Christians think about […]

The Way Home: Philip Yancey on writing, life, and discipleship

Author Philip Yancey joins me on this episode of The Way Home podcast. I have long admired Yancey’s writing, and it’s really shaped me in many ways, particularly at key moments in my life. Yancey writes with such clarity on important topics of life and discipleship. He’s one of the best wordsmiths in the Christian […]

Three Things You Should Cut From Your Writing

If you want to improve your writing craft, cutting precious words might be the most important discipline you learn. You want to write in such a way that the experience for the reader is enjoyable. You don’t want to make them work so hard they give up after the first paragraph. So after you’ve written, give yourself some time and space and then come back and use your scalpel to cut.

Top 10 Posts of 2013

This was a great year in blogging with a 75% increase in traffic. I thank each and every read who passed through and hope my words, in some small way, helped you grow closer to Jesus. I blogged about a lot of different things this year, mostly whatever ideas came to my mind, mostly at […]

Mark Buchanan’s Writing Rhythm

Mark Buchanan is one of my favorite authors. He’s a pastor, a teacher, and a man who can really turn a phrase. I had the chance to interview Mark last week for Leadership Journal. One of the questions I asked was this: What is your writing rhythm? Are you an early morning writer, a late-night […]

On Writing: “Strap Yourself to a Desk and Grind.”

I enjoy good sportswriters, mainly because I absolutely love sports, but also because I think sportswriting is among the best writing on the planet. Guys like Thomas Lake at SI, Bill Simmons, Rick Reilly, Gene Wojciechowski and the Grantland guys at ESPN, Jason Whitlock at Fox Sports, David Haugh at the Chicago Tribune–these guys are among […]

Fruit from Deep Brokenness

For my weekly Leadership Journal interview, I chat with Mary Demuth, a good friend. She’s a gifted author and speaker. Mary has a way of speaking from her own personal pain and brokenness into the lives of others in a unique way. I asked her about this: Your own story of sexual abuse has been […]

The Story Overtook Me

Today for my Leadership Journal interview, I spoke with Rebekah Lyons, cofounder of Q Ideas and the author of a new book, Freefall to Fly. In this book she shares her personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and tensions between motherhood and ministry. I asked her about the writing process and she told me this: This story overtook […]

7 Steps to Get Started Writing

I have a lot of people who are interested in launching a writing career, but don’t know how to get started. It seems a bit overwhelming. So I decided to try and write a post with seven sort of first-steps on writing. I hope this helps those who feel this call. 1) Take a Long […]