It's both easy and difficult to connect with God through Jesus. It's paradoxical. As a "pastor" of a local church, I simply want to help encourage people along the way as best I can.

 

The platypus logo represents this idea of God's paradoxes. Is it an otter? Yes. Is it a duck? Yes.

What about YOU? You also are a paradoxical being!

Are you very, very important? Yes -- particularly to God who created you. Are you simultaneously very, very unimportant? Yes--to the billions of people who do not know you. You're BOTH, and in order to be healthy you need to believe both of those things!

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The title of the blog comes from my belief that we have to be able to accept paradoxes in the Bible in order to live well-connected to God and one another. When we stop holding the paradoxical beliefs in tension together, we fall apart spiritually and relationally. 

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I'm a pastor at Cornerstone Global Methodist Church in Marysville, Ohio. OurCornerstone.Org

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My degrees come from the University of Florida, Asbury University, Trevecca Nazarene University, and Asbury Theological Seminary, and I'm blessed with a wonderful wife and three sons: one out of the house, one halfway out of the house, and one still living at home.

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