A few years ago, I spoke with a man named Jim who gave me this interesting acronym of the descent into compromise and complacency. It’s been posted on my white board for a long time, but I have never posted about it on here. OTAPE is a quick way to remember how easy it is…

“I’m not where I used to be … but I’m not where I wanna be either.” Those words from Eric Ward this morning really struck me. He had just finished singing the song Thunder in Me, which he wrote a few years ago. Throughout the song, he was really emotional, and at many points, his…

We received a truckload of food the other day for the Joseph Storehouse, our food outreach ministry. As I drove into the kitchen on my scooter, Gary, one of the guys who works for Voice, looked at me and said, “Hey Josh, come here for a sec.” He then proceded to jump off the forklift…

What is the deal with the newspaper headlines here in Elkhart. All summer long it was hotter than blazes. The grass was dying and brown and crunchy underfoot. For weeks I did not even mow. Then Mr. Ike appears and we have a few days of steady rain. All of a sudden, the headlines are…