Welcome to LifeStream

If you're new here and want to get a quick feel for what this site is all about, you can read about our passion, and view the new video on Sharing the Father's Affection. Then you might want to review such articles such as, Why I Don't Go to Church Anymore and The Deepest Freedom. If you have a bit more time reading He Loves Me and listening to Transition will give you a more complete look at what we hope to encourage in people like you. Like most of our best stuff here you'll find them freely available to download and pass along to others as you might desire.

So, ultimately I hope this website is about you and your journey. I hope you find confirmation here for things God has already put in your heart, even if they don't fit into many of the religious voices and forms of our day. The life of Jesus was never meant to be a religion of rituals and rules to practice. Rather, Jesus has invited you into a transforming friendship with him that will allow you to share in his unfolding purpose in the earth even as his character and grace take shape in you.

Our prayer is that we all might come to discover God the Father, Son and Spirit as they really are, and thus come to experience the church of Jesus Christ as she truly is taking shape all over the planet today. I know many of you have been disillusioned by what men and women call the 'church' in our day, but isn't that a good thing? If your illusions about church have been dissed, then you may just be ready to see her as she really is-an amazing family of people from across the whole earth who are learning to live under Father's care, surrendered to Jesus' leading, and connected relationally as his Spirit desires.

It's a life well worth living, even through the most trying circumstances of this age, and one I pray you find with increasing reality, freedom and joy.

Lifestream News

1/11/12 - The offices are back open and we've filled the orders that came in over the holidays.  Thanks to everyone for your patience during this time and we have enjoyed the feedback we have received from those reading IN SEASON,  A MAN LIKE NO OTHER, or listening to THE JESUS LENS>  This month we are completing a number of projects and planning the travel schedule for the months ahead.  It looks like Wayne will be in Spokane, WA, and Dallas/Ft. Worth over the next couple of months.

Current Blog

Boundless Compassion

It has been a long time since I have read a book that impacted me more than this one. In places I laughed out loud reading this book in a room by myself. In other places I cried at the challenges some kids have to face just because of where they were born. The book is Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle, a man loving broken lives at ground zero of the gang culture in Los Angeles. It is a deserving NY Times Best-seller and one of the best reads I've had in recent months. And it's all true. This isn't a fictional representation of God's love, but a life breathing in its full reality and sorting out how to pass that love on to others who seemed most predisposed to reject it.

Current Podcast

Seeing People as People

Brad's been listen to the relationships versus religion raps on YouTube and Wayne's been reading Tattoos of the Heart and the two converge in a lively discussion about how we view people. Do we treat others as individuals and love as people even if broken or lost, or do we see them through the grid of us versus them relationships that makes us more prone to poke them in the eye with our own need for self-validation. As long as we need people to fill up something in us, we use them even if we don't mean to. By finding our acceptance and worth in him, we will not view people based on our needs, but rather engage them as loved children of a gracious Father, whether they know it yet or not. That invites us into the space Jesus enjoyed, the freedom to love people for who they were, not how they would fit into his plans.