Hi, I'm Wayne Jacobsen and I want to welcome you to our little corner of the web. Here you'll find a lot of my writings, in article and book form, and a lot of what I share with others on this journey in blogs, podcasts and audio recordings. We provide all of these things in hopes of encouraging you to discover how Jesus wants to help you to live more deeply in him and in the affection his Father has for you.

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.

The Power of Living In Love

By Wayne Jacobsen

BodyLife • June 2008

Life has taken some crazy turns for me since the last one I wrote in September. I will still continue to do these from time to time, but they will not be often or regular. This one is a bit different as well. Here are three related snapshots of what it means to live in the love of God.

Live Where Love Leads You

So, I ended up with a publishing company. I’m not sure how it happened. I was helping a friend with a book he had written. I helped rewrite some of it with another friend, then represented it to the publishing industry. I wasn’t a very good agent. I couldn’t find anyone in the industry who thought it was worth publishing. So the author, another friend, and I decided to publish it on our own.

And we did. Then The Shack started climbing the best-seller lists and other companies wanted to buy it from us. To our surprise one of the largest publishers in the world approached us to enter a partnership with them, not only to help us get The Shack to a larger audience but also help with my books and others we think are worthy of publishing in years ahead. They bought into the vision of what we were doing and thought there was a significant space in the reading public for that vision.

So we formed a partnership with the Hachette Book Group, where we maintain our unique identity as Windblown Media. We can do just as much publishing with them as we want to, and yet are not obligated to put everything we do through the Hachette machine. They made it clear all along that they wanted to help us not hinder us. And while we were working things out with them, The Shack rose to the very top of the New York Times Best Seller List.

How did all this happen? Believe me, we have had some amazing laughter about it all. No one saw this coming and yet simply responding to him each day has brought us into a place we could not have conceived or conspired to get to.