New Mind, New Me

I began publishing videos on YouTube in August 2015. For the first few years, I released one video a week, every Tuesday at 10 a.m. When I saw that the channel was growing exponentially, I had the crazy idea to release two videos a week, one on...

God Might Ruin Your Plans

Everything’s perfect. It was the last week of my...

When Our Faith Is Sideways

Understanding Faith and Doubt in the Christian Life There are doubters in every religious community. Some doubt because they were raised in a world thoroughly immersed in the Holy Spirit and aren’t sure now...

Now Is the Time to Seek

A few days ago, I was watching an Instagram reel of a musician onstage talking to the crowd. When he told people to raise their hands if it was their birthday, the crowd screamed. When he told them to raise...

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Appreciation when everyone is remote

Appreciation when everyone is remote

  Hi! This is Dr. Paul White, co-author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace along with my friend and colleague Dr. Gary Chapman. We apply the 5 love languages to work-based relationships and that’s really been helpful to a lot of both individual...

How to GO When You Can’t Go!

How to GO When You Can’t Go!

  One of the biggest challenges for most people during this current pandemic is how to move forward. Everything is on pause, and yet, American nature tells us that the thing to do is strategize, look to the future, and figure out next steps. Cancellations feel...

5 Reasons to Cling to Hope in the Midst of the Storm

5 Reasons to Cling to Hope in the Midst of the Storm

  In the midst of this pandemic and quarantine, I think of storms. I live on two islands in Alaska, and my family commercial fishes every summer out on stormy waters. So I feel a deep connection to the disciples and the two storms in the gospels. Those two storms have...

A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question

A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question

WERE THERE TEAR STAINS ON THE AUTOGRAPH PARCHMENT? A 2020 Resurrection Sunday Question   As far as we know, there are no surviving autographs of any of the Books of the Bible, including the newer writings of the Apostles.  An autograph is the original document as...

Thinking deeply and leaning in during COVID-19

Thinking deeply and leaning in during COVID-19

  In a matter of weeks, (almost) everything has changed. COVID-19 has transformed pastors across the country (and parts of the world) into digital-church-planters. We are learning and living on the fly, adjusting to a new normal, figuring out how to be the...

Happy Are the Hungry and Thirsty

Happy Are the Hungry and Thirsty

  I long for sad things to be untrue one day. I hunger for wrongs to be made right. I thirst for the hurt to be healed and the broken to be fixed. I want decay and death to give way to life and human flourishing. Like you, I’m longing for God’s justice and shalom...

Lessons of the Lockdown

The term "lockdown," is now associated with the attempt to slow or stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus.  The virus is real, the risks are real,...

Man of the Millennium

In the years leading up to the turn of the century (1996-1999), several publications ran “Man of the Millennium” features, presenting various...

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About the President

Dave Wike is a family man. Serving pastors, and those who desire to do the same, became his calling over the last 20+ years. He and his wife Margie live in North Carolina. They have a son living overseas, and three daughters still at home. Dave enjoys writing instrumental guitar music, and plans to complete his Masters in Biblical Counseling. He’s also well aware he can do nothing good apart from the Holy Spirit. 

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