udithawix / Foter / CC BY As Christians, our lives are a journey, a journey towards home. It’s no accident that world literature is filled with the concept of the journey – everything from The Odyssey to stories in Grimm’s Fairy Tales to The Lord of the Rings. The great journeys in the Bible include Abraham and Moses, and also Paul’s missionary journeys. We all should think about these great journeys, and compare them to our own journeys home. And what is our final home, our destination? Heaven. You should start with a reminder of Who is with us on our Journey, and I was listening to Tina Turner last…

I am EXTREMELY relieved to announce that I finished my dissertation for my Doctorate of Ministry. I UPS’d it this morning — 5 notebooks worth for my reviewing committee, the box weighed a ton. Now I have to wait to see if they’ll grant me the degree or not! That process will take several more months but I am very happy that I have come this far.

ser g/o / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND The dissertation is almost done — final steps! I’m shooting to finish it near the end of this month (Feb. 2015).This is my Doctorate of Ministry (D.Min.) degree that I hope to receive should my dissertation be accepted. If it isn’t… well… disappointment will be an understatement, but it’s in God’s hands. So am I.