Passionate for His Purpose
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The Origin Story: About Passionate for His Purpose
I spent the first half of my life doing everything right as a Christian.
Bible college degree in Preaching and Evangelism? Check. Faithful church attendance? Check. Following the rules, reading my Bible, praying before meals? Check, check, check.
But here is what I never talked about: I felt like I was watching everyone else's spiritual highlight reel while living in black and white.
You know that gnawing feeling when you read about Moses talking to God face-to-face, or David dancing with abandon, or Paul getting caught up to the third heaven, and you think, Where is MY burning bush? Where is MY encounter? I was surrounded by people who seemed to have this vibrant, living relationship with God, while I felt like I was speaking into a cosmic void and hoping for an echo back.
For years, I buried that hunger under service. God redirected me from the pulpit I expected into social work, then education, then technology. I became a Director of Technology for a charter school district in Dallas, convincing myself that maybe this ordinary life was just God's plan for ordinary me. Maybe the deep, transformative relationship with God I craved was reserved for special people.
But that hunger would not die. If anything, it grew stronger.
My wife Tricia walked through her own valley during this season with health challenges that stripped away our illusions of control and forced us to depend on God in ways we would never had to before. Watching her navigate that storm with a faith that actually seemed to grow stronger in the darkness made me realize: she had something I was still reaching for.
Then came September 25, 2017, which was the day that changed everything.
I was sitting in my comfortable office, drawing a comfortable paycheck, living a comfortable Christian life that was slowly suffocating my soul. That is when I heard it. Not an audible voice, but something clearer than sound: It is time. Walk away.
Every logical bone in my body screamed NO! We had no other income lined up. No safety net. No plan B. But for the first time in my life, I heard God's voice with such clarity that disobeying felt more terrifying than obeying.
So I did the most reckless, faithful thing I had ever done. I resigned.
What followed were months of unanswered resumes, sleepless nights, and the kind of raw dependence on God that I had been hungry for but had never been desperate enough to experience. Tricia and I learned to pray like our next meal depended on it because sometimes it did.
But here's what happened in that uncomfortable space between comfort and breakthrough: I finally found what I had been searching for my whole life. Not just knowledge about God, but actual, living, breathing relationship WITH God. Not one-sided prayers thrown into the void, but genuine conversation. Not religious routine, but divine encounter.
That is when Passionate for His Purpose was born not from having it all figured out, but from finally having nothing left to hold onto except Him.
In that crucible, God began downloading teachings that I had never heard in any seminary. The Hebrew concept of Shama hearing God with spiritual intelligence and immediately obeying. The reality of living under an Open Heaven experiencing the same kind of access to God's realm that the biblical heroes walked in.
These were not academic theories. They were survival skills I was learning in real time.
When I started sharing these revelations with other believers, something electric happened. Pastors, ministry leaders, and everyday Christians started reaching out saying, THIS is what I have been hungry for my whole life.
I realized I was not the only one who had been settling for Christian duty when what my soul craved was Christian encounter.
Today, through our teachings, books, courses, and podcast, Tricia and I serve the believer who is done with surface level Christianity and ready to go deeper. We help people discover that the hunger they feel that restless dissatisfaction with church as usual is not a sign of weak faith. It is a sign of awakening faith.
Because here is what I learned in that season of divine uncertainty: God does not want admirers. He wants intimates. He is not looking for people who know about Him. He is looking for people who actually know Him.
That hunger you feel? That is not a problem to be fixed. It is an invitation to go deeper.
As Christians, we should be focused on His purpose not our own purpose. All things are not going to work out for our good if we don’t have a heart that is after God and driven by what is in His mind and heart. It is all about being called according to His purpose. One of our main objectives with this site is to instruct the body of Christ about His purpose. It is our prayer that as you partake of the various offerings on these pages that your relationship with God will become one of intimacy and depth in Him. God wants us to know Him in deeper ways.