If You Like My Voice In Print, Maybe You'll Like It In Stereo Too!

Occasionally, people are crazy enough to ask me to come talk to them about life, God and other stuff that I spend my time wrestling with.  This past Sunday I had the pleasure of sharing my thoughts with the fantastic community of people at Stone Church in Toronto (www.stonechurch.ca). 

 I had a blast chatting with them about the prodigal son and why God doesn't love us like we think He does.  

 If you've got 40 minutes you want to burn, you can listen to it here: The Good News Is You Are Wrong

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