Nat Crawford - Executive Coach, Speaker, Leader

It was 2005. I sat in my house. Alone. I remember the night quite clearly. I had just ran to a local taco shop and grabbed a six pack of tacos and a pound of mexi-fries. Sat down in my chair. Put on a movie. I popped open a beer. For about a millisecond, I thought “bachin it…too sweet.” Then I realized that was a lie. I had screwed it all up. You see just two weeks previous, I hurt my wife. Details don’t matter here. The point is I hurt her. She rightly took time to let God work on me.  She also rightly took time to work on her. Those two weeks we refocused and surrendered our lives and marriage back to God, were monumental. They were monumental for many reasons. One such reason was this reality check:  in order to achieve success, you need a band of brothers or sisters.  Success in these regards is ambiguous. It could be marital, financial, entrepreneurial, or something else.  Here are three reasons why you need to have that Accountability . A b...

Tiff and I are coming up on 12 years of marriage. Awesome. Too many marriages today are being scrapped. This is very sad. I do not attempt to address why this is (at least not in this particular blog). I will briefly say that marriage is a covenant, not just some legal contract. Just saying. Moving on, some of you know the many battles we have fought through over our marriage: health issues, financial issues, career issues, cancer in a child, and more. No small trials. Some people are frankly we have gotten through it. Has it been easy overcoming these trials? No. One of the hardest came at just over two years of marriage. We were fighting a lot. We were tired. We were distant. To be frank, I was done. Thank the Lord - He and Tiff weren't done with me. Very thankful. During this time of growth, renewal, repentance, rekindling, and restoration I learned 3 powerful words that take an apology to the next level. In fact, as I see it, it makes it real. It's really where...

The topic of Christ's bachelorhood has been discussed both in non-fiction and fiction for years, but does it hold any validity? In recent years the book, turned movie, The Davinci Code by Dan Brown has delivered this myth to the masses. A close review of evidence supporting Jesus being married is a fairytale by historical revisionists. There is zero proof in Scripture, in early church tradition and historical records, nor in secular accounts of Jesus' life that He was ever married or even romantic with any woman.  There are two main documents the accusers use to propose the myth of Jesus' marriage. First is the Gospel of Philip, a gnostic gospel. The other is the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, another gnostic gospel. These documents were written many years after the authentic New Testament books. Also gnostic writing specifically or implicitly states Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married. And above all there is zero mention in Scripture of Jesus being married or in a romant...