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...
Take the First Bold Step

Take the First Bold Step

Take The First Bold Step Some of you reading this are standing at the edge of something new and...

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Five Reasons Surrender Should Be a Part of Every Leader’s Vocabulary

Five Reasons Surrender Should Be a Part of Every Leader’s Vocabulary

Surrender is far from a widely embraced concept in our culture today. Surrender is the opposite of the independent “I can do it” attitude plaguing modern day society. In whatever capacity you lead in your church, we’re all called to let God lead the way when it comes...

Why the Church Needs to Talk About Dating

Why the Church Needs to Talk About Dating

A friend and I began planning an event for our church where unmarried men and women could mingle and get to know each other. The church’s leadership wanted to create a subtle night of games where singles could interact naturally. In the process, maybe they’d get a...

No Lost Causes

No Lost Causes

“Then Jesus told them this parable, ‘Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the one lost sheep until he finds it?” Luke 15:3-4, niv In a family full of lost sheep, my uncle Jack...

Knowing Whose You Are: Clinging to God in Influencer Culture

Knowing Whose You Are: Clinging to God in Influencer Culture

I’m with some fellow graduate students who are seeking God for next steps. Out of all we have learned, God, how then should we live?  We crazy Christians have the audacity to think we can actually hear from God. And how easily I forget that this is an actual miracle:...

Healing a Wounded and Critical Spirit

Healing a Wounded and Critical Spirit

As I have spent more time gardening in the past year than ever, I’ve learned some valuable lessons about weeds that look like flowers to the untrained eye and how they smother the good things I’ve planted. Fortunately, I have a gardener friend who helped me rescue our...

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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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