Thanks for joining my email list because you have an interest in this book project I've been alluding to on social media for the last several months. Well, things are shaping up.After a lot of consideration, I decided that I didn't want to write the...
Hey friends,In lieu of our normal entertainment (me telling a funny story with a spiritual point), I want to get serious.Well, not really...What's SERIOUS is that I just published a simple collection of ten humorous retellings of Bible stories, avail...
I was a kid who would read anything and everything. The most random things became my teachers. Ingredients, advertisements, random pieces of paper on a desk and especailly the backs of cereal boxes were my books during the rate times when there wasn’...
Sometime in elementary school, a guest artist came into the class and showed us the basics of drawing. I'm no natural artist by any stretch of the imagination, but there was something about the project that entralled me.The premise was to create a ci...
I'm still haunted by a moment after preaching at a small, rural church the summer after my Freshman year of college. An older lady came up to me and said something along the lines of "One day, you'll make a great preacher."I suppose the comment was m...
Things are busy and a bit chaotic in the Doberenz Household.Freedom is just on the horizon but I still need to get through the rest of the week.In the meantime, I'm wondering: How do you handle busyness? How do you handle stress?For me, a good story...
It's amazing the specific details we automatically imitate.After getting baptized at 13 years old, I began to take communion with the adults of the church. As simple as it seems to eat a piece of cracker and sip some juice, I wanted to do it right. S...
Stories are powerful. They bring people together. They change lives. Mere words can rewrite reality.As a writer, preacher, teacher, and communicator words are kind of my bread and butter. In college, I minored in Communication Studies so I got to see...
My wife and I are in the process of moving. Actually, we are majorly downsizing--going from a little three-bedroom house to a one-bedroom apartment attached to my college dorm. I'm becoming the Resident Director for the very dorm I lived in for my fi...
We found ourselves in an Amish community barely different than the rest of America.While on vacation in Waco, TX, my wife and I and our two friends visited an Amish community. It's a tourist attraction in the area because it has a bunch of cool shops...