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465 - I Needed To Know What I Believed

Tim shares about a moment in his story that shook him out of everything he thought he believed. A makeshift memorial service followed by a night that exposed the darkness he’d been living in, and a sudden, unexpected invitation that changed everything. From resistance to surrender, he encountered Jesus in a way he couldn’t ignore and nothing shares how he has “never been the same since.”

@timchaddick is the Pastor for Preaching at Reality Ventura and the founding pastor of Reality Church London and Reality LA. He currently lives in California with his wide Lindsey and their family. Tim is also the author of ‘Better’ and ‘The Truth about Lies’.

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TWENTY YEARS ago today, we launched the very first service of @realityla

I feel very grateful. (And so old, ha.)

In the year leading up to the launch, my wife and I were sent out by our church family at @realitycarp —praying weekly, gathering a team, and stepping forward in faith.

Honestly, just a few months before we launched, we had no idea where we would even meet or how the church would ever be sustainable. The photo is from our first Sunday prayer meeting in Hollywood, in the auditorium at Gardner Street Elementary School—a space we secured just weeks before launch.

By the grace of God, we saw miracle after miracle. And it wasn’t because we had a great plan or had it all together, but in spite of it. People prayed passionately and persistently for God to move—and He did. Through many ups and downs and so many seasons, it’s been a gift to watch the church grow, change, and continue to thrive.

In 2015, my family and I moved to London, and @jeremytreat stepped into my role and has served so faithfully—along with the rest of the staff and leadership—over the last ten years. It’s been a joy to watch from a distance and cheer them on.

Lindsey and I are deeply grateful for God’s faithfulness and for everyone who has been part of this story.

WE’RE PURCHASING A BUILDING!

God has been faithfully working in Ventura for generations, and now Reality Ventura has the opportunity to continue that story by establishing a permanent home that strengthens our reach, presence, and gospel impact. This moment invites us to step forward together in faith—securing a place that will serve our community today and leave a lasting legacy for future generations.

To learn more about how you can invest in our permanent home, visit realityventura.com/building and join us in prayer as we take this next step together.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

For ten days I had the privilege of traveling with fifty others to walk in the footsteps of the early Christians in Ephesus, Athens, Corinth and many other cities in Turkey and Greece. It was a truly remarkable and transformative experience.

Our guide from @gtitours summarized our trip like this: In this quiet, windswept place, we gathered to reflect on all we had seen, learned, and felt. Over the past week, we have journeyed through the Seven Churches of Revelation and retraced the steps of Paul and the early believers who risked everything to carry the message of the Messiah into the heart of the Roman world. It has been a week of walking not just through ruins, but through the very foundations of our faith.
 
What happened in these lands in the first and second centuries was nothing short of revolutionary. The Christian movement spread faster, further, and more enduringly than any ideology history has ever seen. As Robin Lane Fox notes in Pagans and Christians, “No other religion in the Empire grew at anything like the same speed.” 
 
Within just a few generations, this once-marginalized faith radiated outward from Israel to Asia Minor, then to Greece, and eventually to the heart of the empire itself—Rome.

But why? 
 
Why did people join a movement that came with such a high cost? To follow Christ in those early days meant potential social exclusion, economic sacrifice, legal vulnerability, and even death. And still people were added daily.

They came in droves.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It’s been a fulfilling year of visiting old friends and making new ones, enjoying trips with my wife, learning from my peers and some remarkable thinkers, great sporting moments, fun city running, and, of course, seeing my oldest daughter get engaged. There is so much to be grateful for.

It finally happened. After three years of dating, my daughter’s boyfriend proposed, and she said yes.

I love my daughter so much, and I’m so proud of her, especially in how she has grown through so much and come alive in her faith. Her conviction, creativity and determination is so admirable.

And her fiance is such a great guy. He loves Jesus, is a man of character and treats Lily so well. Lindsey and I look forward to him joining the family in the summer of 2025.

It finally happened. After three years of dating, my daughter’s boyfriend proposed, and she said yes.

I love my daughter so much, and I’m so proud of her, especially in how she has grown through so much and come alive in her faith. Her conviction, creativity and determination is so admirable.

And her fiance is such a great guy. He loves Jesus, is a man of character and treats Lily so well. Lindsey and I look forward to him joining the family in the summer of 2025.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

Choosing to follow Jesus is not merely a one-time event; it is a daily choice of faith and trust.

So thankful to preach on and think about these vital truths of the Christian life with so many wonderful people at this year’s @creationfestuk

I also had the privilege of traveling to the UK and France with 60 other adults and youth from @realityventura. From learning about the spiritual history of England and France to sharing the gospel on the streets of London and Paris, our team had a fruitful two weeks! We even had the privilege of worshiping with @realitychurchlondon and learning how to pray for and support the church.

We are heading back home with grateful hearts.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

My wife and I just celebrated her 42nd birthday and my 45th. In some ways, this past year has been very difficult. But I am also thankful for all the evidence of God’s grace. The support and resilience of my wife, the creativity of my daughters, great friendships that grow stronger with age, the experience of travel, the resilience of the church community, and the simple things like good music, fascinating books, the drama of sport, and, something I’d never thought I say, the joy of running! @lindsey_chaddick Here’s to another year on the lifelong journey of following Jesus.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

“We owe much to many whom we have never met.”

This has been said about the history of the church, and this past week a large group of 70+ adults and youth from our church had the chance to learn from many we have never met and explore the history of the church in the UK. Through gifted leaders, we learned about the reformation of the church, the abolition of the slave trade, and the translation of the Bible into English. And I got to read scripture from John Newton’s pulpit before we sang Amazing Grace in the church he pastored for 27 years.

We also learned about what God is doing today through the ministry of local churches and outreaches whose impact extends beyond London to the nations represented in its diverse population. Pastor Girma Bishaw, the previous pastor of the Ethiopian Christian Fellowship Church in London, reminded us about God’s heart for the nations and how we can pray for the global church today.

And, of course, a highlight for me was visiting @realitychurchlondon with my whole family for the first time since we moved back to the States. It was a joy to preach to a congregation that will always be in our hearts, meet so many people who have joined the church in the past few years and see the fruit of the ministry of Pastor Bijan Mirtolooi and the rest of the leadership team there in London.

Trips like this remind me that it is true; we owe so much to many we have never met. I am returning to California with a grateful heart to be a small part of God’s bigger story.

London Day 3: Remarkable church history tour with @christianheritagelondon the British Museum and and an insane 8k boot camp run with 400 Londoners (including some members from @realitychurchlondon !)

London Day 3: Remarkable church history tour with @christianheritagelondon the British Museum and and an insane 8k boot camp run with 400 Londoners (including some members from @realitychurchlondon !)

London Day 3: Remarkable church history tour with @christianheritagelondon the British Museum and and an insane 8k boot camp run with 400 Londoners (including some members from @realitychurchlondon !)

London Day 3: Remarkable church history tour with @christianheritagelondon the British Museum and and an insane 8k boot camp run with 400 Londoners (including some members from @realitychurchlondon !)

London Day 3: Remarkable church history tour with @christianheritagelondon the British Museum and and an insane 8k boot camp run with 400 Londoners (including some members from @realitychurchlondon !)

London Day 3: Remarkable church history tour with @christianheritagelondon the British Museum and and an insane 8k boot camp run with 400 Londoners (including some members from @realitychurchlondon !)

London Day 2: Brunch with my youngest, a run through our old neighborhood (and by the Emirates of course), helping our team of 70 from @realityventura get into London, and dinner on the river.

London Day 2: Brunch with my youngest, a run through our old neighborhood (and by the Emirates of course), helping our team of 70 from @realityventura get into London, and dinner on the river.

London Day 2: Brunch with my youngest, a run through our old neighborhood (and by the Emirates of course), helping our team of 70 from @realityventura get into London, and dinner on the river.

London Day 2: Brunch with my youngest, a run through our old neighborhood (and by the Emirates of course), helping our team of 70 from @realityventura get into London, and dinner on the river.

London Day 2: Brunch with my youngest, a run through our old neighborhood (and by the Emirates of course), helping our team of 70 from @realityventura get into London, and dinner on the river.

London Day 2: Brunch with my youngest, a run through our old neighborhood (and by the Emirates of course), helping our team of 70 from @realityventura get into London, and dinner on the river.

London Day 2: Brunch with my youngest, a run through our old neighborhood (and by the Emirates of course), helping our team of 70 from @realityventura get into London, and dinner on the river.

London Day 1: Breakfast in the sun, a run through Hackney, and a walk through our old neighborhood. It’s good to be back with the whole family this time.

London Day 1: Breakfast in the sun, a run through Hackney, and a walk through our old neighborhood. It’s good to be back with the whole family this time.

London Day 1: Breakfast in the sun, a run through Hackney, and a walk through our old neighborhood. It’s good to be back with the whole family this time.

London Day 1: Breakfast in the sun, a run through Hackney, and a walk through our old neighborhood. It’s good to be back with the whole family this time.

London Day 1: Breakfast in the sun, a run through Hackney, and a walk through our old neighborhood. It’s good to be back with the whole family this time.

London Day 1: Breakfast in the sun, a run through Hackney, and a walk through our old neighborhood. It’s good to be back with the whole family this time.

London Day 1: Breakfast in the sun, a run through Hackney, and a walk through our old neighborhood. It’s good to be back with the whole family this time.