The Importance of Finding and Forging Friendship
I finally completed one of the goals I’ve had for the last decade: to read through Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy in its entirety. I’ve owned the books since I…
Ben is a husband to Neva and father to four children, Felix (2018), Kaius (2020), and twins Jubilee and Jethro (2023). Ben is the church planting pastor of Redeemer for the Near Westside, a ministry seeking to see a new church planted through the proclamation and demonstration of Christ’s Kingdom.
I finally completed one of the goals I’ve had for the last decade: to read through Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy in its entirety. I’ve owned the books since I…
2020 Update: I update this post every year to let you know how I did on my reading plan in the previous year. Well, 2019 was pretty abysmal. I read a lot of…
Over the last couple of years there has been a pretty huge resurgence of interest in Mister Rogers. Beginning with the 2018 documentary, Won’t You be My Neighbor?, there has also been…
A few years ago, while we were on one of our trips to see her family in LA, my wife and I visited a local church on Sunday morning during their normally…