by Rhett Smith on November 5, 2009
[image by Maria Keay] For those who choose to take the journey, it is lifelong. The longer the journey, the more nuances it takes on and the more it opens up to broader experiences. Yet, a journey must progress step by step. So it is with our spiritual journey. (pp. xvii, The Critical Journey: Stages [...]
by Rhett Smith on July 20, 2009
[image by Church Online] This week I have had the opportunity to share some thoughts around depression with LifeChurch.tv. You can watch the 4:34 minute video, An Anchor in the Journey-Exodus 17:1 as I talk about the importance of seeing our lives as a journey, and the experiences we will come up across during the [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 5, 2009
Emerging Adulthood I have always seemed to work with a lot of people in the midst of that life transition from college to young adult, or to what is often referred to as emerging adulthood. So because of the extension of adolescence, and the pushing of adulthood and it’s responsibilities to later years (late 20′s [...]
by Rhett Smith on February 26, 2009
When I took my first full-time church job I was as 27 year old single college director. When I resigned I was a 33 year old husband and father of a baby girl. I had no idea what that stage or life transition would look like, and it was a tough one to make in [...]
by Rhett Smith on February 25, 2009
Growing up in a non-denominational Bible church as I did, I had no concept of Ash Wednesday. Rather, that was something my Catholic friends did, but not Protestants, and certainly not Evangelical Bible church goers. It was not until about 1999 that I attended my first Ash Wednesday service at a Lutheran Church, where my [...]
