Author Archives: kirklstewart

I thought I had it all together.  Well, better stated, I at least thought I was handling it all well.  Our church had just been through a difficult season.  Our pastor had recently resigned under a cloud of uncertainty.  There was never a clear understanding of his leaving, only an abrupt departure that left theContinue reading “Real Stories: Anxiety”

You have undoubtedly been told it recently.  It’s on internet ads and tv commercials.  I even saw it on a digital billboard just this past week.  “You Are Enough.”  It’s a great, self-reliance word that is to encourage me while instilling independence and strength.  It is meant to motivate me to find all of life’sContinue reading “You are(n’t) Enough”

God did not create marriage so we could feel love. It wasn’t created so we could live financially stable or so we could have ditch that “single” status on social media. It wasn’t for fulfilling sexual desires, to earn us a tax credit or to give us someone to answer the question “does this hatContinue reading “Save the DATE”

My name is Kirk Stewart. I’m a husband, a father, a pastor, a software developer, a Biblical counselor, and among other oddities, a runner. I don’t fully know why I enjoy running – maybe it’s the freedom of being alone with my thoughts or just being outside or the self-reliance challenge or maybe I’m justContinue reading “What is Mile18?”