By Brian Jakowski I was sixteen and tweaking my Pontiac GTO for street racing. While swapping out the stock exhaust for racing headers, my dad said I needed a different wrench. I didn’t listen. Two hours later an exhaust manifold was cracked and half the bolts were stripped. The car…

By Brian Jakowski What if every person on earth put the best interest of others before their own? How would a world, in which everyone’s clamoring “It’s all about me,” change? With society’s unbridled pursuit of its own self-interest, the nuclear family is teetering, while mental health issues, abuse, violent…

by Brian Jakowski It’s just there when we wake up every day. Waiting on our cell phones, computers and more. A singular message, a single word, subtly working to win our hearts. The world’s whispers of “More” fill our every waking moment. More money, clothes, food, sex, recognition, status, pleasure…

What you believe drives and shapes how you live your life. Believe your an eggplant and you’ll be living in a padded room. believe you’re nobody, and become invisible, even abused. Believe in the cross of Jesus Christ and become everything He intended. He touched their eyes and said, “Become…

By Brian Jakowski Sorry to burst your bubble but, Jesus wasn’t a white guy, an Anglo-Saxon, protestant, or Christian. These truths have no effect on why I believe in Jesus, or why I try to live for Him! So, what did He look like, and why do I believe? Let’s…

By Brian Jakowski You woke up today locked in a war against an enemy devoted to destroying your soul. This enemy, the devil, is as real as the device you’re reading on. If you simply don’t believe or envision him with red tights, a pointy tail, horns, and a pitchfork…

America, I love you. I was born, raised, lived and worked for fifty-two years in North Eastern Ohio, I am you, the good, the bad and the ugly. In answer to the Lord’s call on our lives, my family and I left for Brazil’s Amazon ten years ago. After living…

An inevitable point in life every one of us will go through and can never escape is grief. At times, you’ll grieve, other times you’ll be a caring companion guiding a loved one through their necessary grief passage. Walking with someone in the travails of grief isn’t for the faint…

By Brian Jakowski The end of one story begins the next; even the darkest endings can clear the way to a brighter life. I woke up one day as a divorce statistic. A broken and disillusioned thirty-something, I fell headlong into a self-destructive lifestyle and began living out the mantra…