Welcome to My Blog (A Brief Introduction)

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I’m a full-time husband, father, student, and author of Live Free. On this blog, I share my thoughts on following Jesus through a world of chaos.

Sometimes our personal experiences in life make us feel as if God doesn’t really care about what’s going on. Yet, the more I study Scripture the more captivated I am by the Message of Jesus. I think we too often lose sight of that Message and get bogged down by the craziness we face.

But here’s the thing: you don’t have to wonder about whether God cares. If you desire to know God and see how his Message can help make sense of your human experiences, this is the place for you. I invite you to subscribe and sit tight.

On average, I publish two new posts a week. If you don’t want to miss a thing, sign up for updates and a free guide on navigating chaotic times by entering your email below. This is going to be freeing.

Readers are saying…

I would have walked away from the faith if it wasn’t for a few close friends and your writing. -Anonymous young man who messaged me privately on Facebook

This is excellent—full of rich meat. I could spend years referring back to these articles, working on these points bit by bit, revolutionizing my spiritual life and that of those around me. -Treva Eicher, commenter on Stop Criticizing Your Church and Start Creating Change

Asher, you have provided some extremely insightful commentary that has left me pondering about my own heart and how I have attempted to navigate the difficult places. It is a powerful thing to begin to see what God wants us to see in His Word! Thank you for helping us to understand things on a deeper level. God bless you my friend. -Ben Smith, commenter on Why You Find It Hard to Control Your Sexual Desires

Best blog posts

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Who is this guy?

Born and raised as a pastor’s son in Northern Minnesota,  I moved with my family in 2008 to start a network of house churches in Los Angeles, California. Life can be confusing. Church life can be confusing. And over the years of planting a church and working with people, I’ve wrestled through many questions about how it all fits together.

I met Teresa in 2011–she destroyed me. My singleness, that is. A beautiful and passionate Bible school gal, I got to know her well as we spent lots of time together in training. Less than a year after returning home we got married.

Only, four days before our wedding, my mom was killed in a car accident.

Life doesn’t always go as we plan, and we’re both well acquainted with that. Teresa’s dad nearly died in a car wreck when she was four years old, changing his life in significant ways. Now, here we were starting our marriage picking up the pieces of catastrophic loss.

I suppose all of us are always trying to make sense of life, in one way or another. But in the last six years, it’s gone to another level for us.

In 2014, with a ten-month old baby and another one on the way, we moved to Thailand to teach school at a small international school in Chiang Mail. We spent three years overseas making many special memories as a family. During our time there, we lost our third baby–once again processing the agony of loss. This time it was over someone we never knew.

We love God. We love people. And we care, especially, about people who find God (or life in general) sometimes difficult to understand. Not because we feel we have all the answers; but because we know what it’s like, and we’ve experienced Jesus Christ in such a profound way we can’t help but want others to experience him as well.

I’ve blogged for more than five years.

I’ve even developed a few eBooks on church, and am in the process of self-publishing my first book on making sense of male sexuality.

Because of a growing desire to know God at a deeper level, and because of an increased sense of responsibility from teaching and writing, I felt a need for further Bible training. We moved back to Los Angeles in 2017 and I began a bachelor’s of biblical studies degree at Eternity Bible College in 2018. We live in a small, two-bedroom apartment with three rambunctious boys. But God is good, and we are grateful for his presence.

Life still has its confusing moments (such as learning how to parent well). But we believe God wants to walk with each of us as we sort through confusing parts of life.

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Rules and stuff

  • I don’t accept unsolicited guest posts.
  • I reserve the right to delete (even block) all comments or commenters who damage the atmosphere of safety I value on this blog.
  • You don’t need permission to republish an excerpt from a blog post (300 words or less). You’re welcome to quote me without asking.

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