I’m addicted. I really am. Obsessed might be the word. Its never a good sign for your sanity (or career) when you think about a fictional TV show so much that you comb message boards looking for clues and insights, typing in secret words into a barcode input boxes (which by the way, you type…
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Purify the colors
Christ draws us to Him. There is nothing more simple, more heartening, more comforting than knowing that my mistakes, my misgivings, my sinfulness cannot and will not impair His (complete) work. We are the water at the bottom of the well. None of our work, our deeds, our learning, our wealth removes us from the…
Read MoreThanks through remembrance
There’s just enough snow lightly falling to the earth to break up the dreariness of a gray winter day. And as I glance through my hand written journal, I am reminded of our struggles as a family over the years and how time and time again, Lord, you have brought us through unharmed and standing….
Read MoreI can waste more time than you can
Sonya and I have been utterly exhausted as of late. Drained. We’ve been getting adequate sleep; perhaps we’re just begetting more sleep with sleep. Or we’re just really bored. My tenure at CHPC is nearly done, and I’m excited about the future and where I might be used. I hope to still be playing drums….
Read MoreReflections
I\’ve been imbibing “Imagine : A Vision for Christians in the Arts”. I’m humbled. Convicted. Invigorated. That which I felt, but could not vocalize, is solaced in this book. The other week 60 Minutes had a story on Christian music and its “mainstream” cross over success. In it they focused on a few bands that…
Read MoreShiver and Shake
It\’s one of those days where everything is directly made to boil me over. I made 5 batches of roasted coffee – 3 to give to one of the pastors, another to brew and share with the band and another for home. That was fine – perhaps a small business will form from my grassroots…
Read MoreHealing
How can a Presbyterian Church, one over 150 years old, institute a new method of service, while retaining the important and historical aspects of a deeply traditional denomination? That is now a challenge I am to discover, uncover and resolve; along with a team that will hopefully grow and include anyone and everyone interested in…
Read MoreConvenient Hypocrisy of Free Speech
How is the ACLU not demanding the revocation of the tax-exempt status of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Miami for endorsing a political candidate? How is this not an endorsement of a political agenda? Where’s the ACLU and their invocation of “Separation of Church and State”? Why is Kerry allowed, in essence, to give…
Read MoreIllness and Church transitions
It’s a dark and rainy cool October morning. Abbie is home sick from school — not only because of a cold, but both her eyes have been very red and itchy for a day or two. I got very little sleep this weekend – both kids are plagued with colds and coughing through the night….
Read MoreChristian Superstition
I’m sitting with Elliott on the over sized chair watching Sesame Street, as he sucks his thumb and “mines” on my neck (pinches, squeezes, fiddles). It was an early morning, up at 5. Elliott did not sleep well. About the 3rd night in a row of him waking often with bad dreams. One time a…
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