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Okay. Here’s the ‘short’ version… (chuckle)

At age 18 I became a follower of Jesus Christ.  The whole thing wasn’t as much about ‘getting religion’ as it was about entering into a real relationship with the God that created me, and who loved me, and who never intended for me to live the disjointed, confusing, futureless life I had been living.

Mind you, nothing catastrophic had happened; I wasn’t a crack addict or going to prison or dying of cancer. I just realized I was living a me-centered life that had no real, enduring meaning, and I found a greater love, a greater truth, and a greater relationship to trust in.

I tried a lot other things first, by the way.

And let me just say, I understand that the term ‘Christian’, to some, may evoke images of bigotry, intolerance, and self-righteousness. I believe with everything that I am that Jesus Christ did not offer himself as a sacrifice yo create and sustain a set of beliefs and behaviours that had those things as their end.

It’s difficult, and I will spend the rest of this life trying to figure out how to allow grace, mercy and truth to prevail when my emotions, our culture and certain aspects of ‘religion’ would suggest otherwise. Many, many people do not navigate this sort of thing very well.  I have been among them.  I am glad that the whole relationship hinges on grace – God’s beautiful, transformational, unearned, undeserved grace – and not anything I could have done or accomplished in and of myself.  

That relationship has radically (if gradually) changed everything about my life.

Those changes eventually led me to walk away from a 20-year career in Information Technology and go into vocational missions work with Keynote, which is a small part of a worldwide missions organization called Campus Crusade for Christ. Keynote’s work is to create innovative resources to creatively communicate the truth of Christ to the world. Music, short film, social media, graphic design… those sorts of things.

Since I’ve been a musician pretty much all my life, that turned out to be a pretty cool way to blend those two passions together. So now, I run around the planet with a guitar, leading a band called blue sky nine, using music as a way to connect with people and start conversations about spiritual things. But I also get to mentor students, train communicators, and play guitar in various other projects quite a bit. It’s great work if you can get it.

This blog is where I tell stories from those travels.

For more information about our work with Keynote, click here.