It doesn't always have to be loud.
I help people live their faith on a Monday.
At work, with the friends they already have, and in the questions they can't ask out loud anywhere else.
I'm Jake. I live in Orange County with my wife Kinsey and our four kids. My number is (858) 291-2054. Text me.
Does any of this sound like you?
If you want to be a better friend to your coworkers.
You've thought about how to talk about Jesus with the people you see every day, but it always feels weird or forced. That's most of what I work on. No scripts, no awkward openers, no making it your whole personality. Just figuring out how to befriend people and be the one they come to with the honest questions.
If you want your business to reflect your faith.
You don't want to be the weird Christian boss, and you don't want to hide it either. Most of it is quiet: how you treat your team, how you make decisions, how you handle a hard call. Some of it is choosing to say why out loud. I help with both.
If you have hard questions and nowhere safe to ask them.
The Bible. Suffering. Science. The church. Your own doubts. I'd rather hear the real questions than have you sit on them. I don't have every answer, but I've wrestled with most of the big ones and I know where the honest evidence is.
If church feels flat and you're not sure why.
You're not crazy, and you're not alone. Church is a means to a mission, not the mission itself. If you're ready to stop watching from a pew and start living what we've been invited into, that's the conversation I love most.
Want to talk?
Text me, or leave a voicemail. Coffee in person if you're in Orange County. With a wife and four kids, I'll usually get back to you in a day or two.
I've had hundreds of these conversations. Coworkers, neighbors, parents at pickup, strangers on planes. Yours is welcome too.
Not ready to text?
Read what I write every Monday at Having Killer Conversations. Short notes on how to talk about Jesus without making it weird.
About
That's the family. I follow Jesus, and most of what I do flows from one conviction: faith isn't a Sunday compartment. It's how you show up Monday through Friday.
My day job is leading Search OC, a ministry built around creating safe places for people to ask honest questions about God. I also write Having Killer Conversations, short notes on how to talk about Jesus without making it weird.
Mostly, I just like helping people figure this stuff out one conversation at a time. That's why my phone number is on this page.
Writing, start here
If you want a feel for how I think, start here.
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How to Share Your Faith with Friends and Still Have Friends
Talking about Jesus with people you like, without losing the friendship.
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The Second Question
Most spiritual conversations die at the surface. Here's the move that takes them deeper.
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How to Have Killer Conversations
Why this newsletter exists, and why every conversation deserves your full attention.
Read the rest at Having Killer Conversations.