Stories from the Road

Spokane is a college town as we have three major universities located here. This gives me many opportunities to engage in conversations with young adults as ride-sharing seems to be a chief means of navigating around our city. I love that I get to li
Recently I had the opportunity to have meaningful conversations with a young women attending Gonzaga University. As we conversed, I asked her about the religion classes the school required. She was pleased to share, as she had still been thinking ab
Received a kind note on the podcast I recently recorded. If you have interest in hearing from the Uber Pastor, you can grab the link on my bio page. Remember - God delights to use the ordinary! 🙌🏼 Pastor Jay! What an encouragement your podcast wit
This morning our church began a new sermon series on 1 Peter - a book all about Jesus-followers living as exiles in our present fallen world. What a fitting text considering the events of this past week. Below is my closing prayer offered this morn
I didn’t know Charlie Kirk personally and yet it is difficult to not to keep thinking about this terrible Wednesday. This was the guy many of us borrowed courage from & now he is gone. Taken from his family because he had the courage to i
I Had the privilege of speaking at Moody Aviation last week. This is such a unique college, training the next generation of missionary pilots & mechanics. This is undoubtedly the coolest classroom in Spokane!   I gave a talk on the app
Had a chance to do a podcast with ‘The Church Around The World’ ministries earlier this month. The link is in on my bio page if you care to listen. 👍🏼 If your church is looking to be inspired to make much of Jesus in this life, I&rsquo
Took a break from Uber-pastoring last night to take these pretty ladies out to the rodeo. Thankful to be able to steal some time together! ❤️☺️
This past weekend, Spokane saw 25k people compete in the world’s largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament held all over the city. As an Uber-pastor, my weekend was slammed, on top of preaching Sunday morning.  I am good friends with the Spoka
I have never used a horror film to launch into a gospel conversation until a few days ago. I drove a young married couple to the movie theatre for their date-night. They were excited to watch the latest Final Destination film in the series, which I k
I got to drive a most remarkable individual earlier this week – a 42-year-old Iranian woman who calls Chicago her home for the last 15 years since leaving Iran. She happened to be in Spokane dropping off a load in her 18-wheeler. I got to drive
Pastors aren’t supposed to have favorites. I however do. Her name is Marie and she is the most joy-filled, gracious follower of Jesus I know. She also happens to be 91 years old. Marie started attending our church about 2 years ago. She blazes
It’s been a couple of months since I’ve shared our family’s story of adoption with a passenger. This all changed a week ago when I spent time with a husband and wife returning home after an evening out. “Why did you adopt two
I recently had a conversation with a young man who thought he was too sinful to be forgiven. “I have been living hard for the past 8 years and probably need to live righteous for 8 more years in order to be forgiven.” This mindset isn&rs
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:55 This changes everything. Forever. Joy indeed!
Good Friday Indeed.
The question I am often asked by others who want to grow in sharing their faith, is this - How do you start evangelistic conversations with people?      I have no memorized formula that I rely on. That said, I will answer this que
I have grown as an ambassador of the gospel in several ways over the past decade. One of the most significant is in HOW I share the gospel. It’s a small change, but a total game-changer.   What is this small change?    I used to
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