Thy Grace is Sufficient

"It's learning how to die..." More on the interview with Eugene Peterson. Excerpts below: I don't want to suggest that th...

Drop everything, and go look at this . Warning, it is not for the squeamish, but it is, at least for me, such a wonderful example that God, ...

My cap

I am involved with Young Life in my area. Young Life steps in where the church has failed to be relevant, and works in partnership with the ...

We need to see our world more clearly...

I go on and on about Christian American things, post them, and then, I find this . Go ahead, look. Steve (same name as me) lives in Burkina ...

The Wrong Kind of Intimacy As I mentioned yesterday, I was thunderstruck by the thoughts of Eugene Peterson in this article in Christianity ...

Softball Season has begun! Blue Crush 5, Other Team (Name unknown by me) 7 Darn! Season Record 1-1 The thoughts of Eugene Peterson in the m...

Eugene Peterson As my plane ride to Sacramento for business hit cruising altitude yesterday morning, I was perusing the latest issue of Chri...

After feeling varying degrees of sadness and angst over being "church homeless", this article renews my faith in what God continu...

My mortgage is large Debt looms over me like fog American Dream?

A response to Derek I received a thoughtful response to two posts, here and here , from Derek, who is obviously a kind, handsome, thrifty, ...

Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau once penned: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" This was written as Thoreau...

Go Rachel, Go! Feel like your life has too many challenges? Too many bills to pay, kids too noisy, feeling lonely, like your job stinks. Fee...

I had another conversation today with a (different than the other day) pastor friend. He was telling me about his new members class at his c...

Are The Cleavers "Seekers" or Just "Emergent"? Gosh, come on and smile you people, or is church THAT bad? Ok, so Tod Bol...

Daniel Schorr So I am driving home today from work, listening to NPR. There is lengthy coverage of the news that freedom seems to be breakin...

As noted here my way cool wife just returned from a weekend of home building in Tijuana. Upon return, the team of those who went were tradi...

I need to get a pipe! Alright, I take off a day or so from blogging, and cyber-space zaps past me. My friend Tod Bolsinger has a wonderful s...

Terry Schiavo This is simply not right. I know. Our dearest friends have a family member who is living in sub-acute care, and slowly declin...

Building a bit of the Kingdom For the past 10 years or so, my wife has always wanted to celebrate her 40th birthday by building a home for s...

I was in a pastor friend's office today, and spotted this quote, framed on the wall: "Lord its your Church. I am going to bed....

Awwww...so touching

So very alone... Interesting. My little bits recently on Homeless Churchie , Perfect Church , and Church Shopping have started the gears tu...

And you think this blog does not offer important news items ? Prepare to have your paradigm shifted.

A Company of Soldiers Tonight I had the opportunity to watch the PBS Series Frontline, which presented " A Company of Soldiers ", ...

Simon and Garfunkle had it right. Our lives race by at a pace that is stunning, breathtaking, ridiculous. Tod Bolsinger has a post on this t...

Pastor KC About fifty jillion years ago, I used to spend time with a group of college aged fellows from my old church. One of these guys had...

The King had a dream.... Recently I heard a series of messages given by Dr. Mark Labberton of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley. All cre...

Julie and her family Those faithful who have stopped by this blog in the past, have heard about my friend Julie, who continues to battle can...

A good man from one-half way around the world, living out the gospel in his vocation, offers these great guidelines for blogging from a Chri...

Recently I heard a series of messages given by Dr. Mark Labberton of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley. All credit here goes to Dr. Labb...

Strangers in a Strange Land by James B. Janknegt's Recently I heard a series of messages given by Dr. Mark Labberton of First Presbyteri...

Blog, blog, bloggity blog. This has been an interesting journey of Blogging thus far for me. I spend far less time watching the Food Network...

Oh look, the perfect family at the Perfect Church! You might recall I have been thinking recently about the concept of "The Perfect Ch...

My daughter says I never do anything productive at work. What does she know!? Here I am, today, discovering that it is not good to pour coff...

As a kid I loved Bugs Bunny, and I still do. There was one Bugs episode in which the Abominable Snow Man got somehow displaced in Palms Spri...

Ewwwww...... Alright, I confess right here my predominant ignorance of which is the most correct Bible version. However, Mark Roberts has st...

I read this wonderful post tonight , as I finished a busy day of carting girls around Pasadena and surroundings, augmenting their teenage Am...

Looking Around We have several friends who have been church shopping for more than 10 years. Actually, we know lots of people like this. Mos...

I have received a tribute from an old friend that I am not even close to being vaguely worthy of. My old (well, he is not that old) friend ...

Forty days until the Most Remarkable Day in History. Mark Roberts shares meaningful thoughts on Lent here, from which I quote my favorite p...

Baby Back Ribs with Lemon Confit Marinade First off, go here to find a great list of the winners of the first awards for best evangel...

Jamie Oliver has never seen a recipe like ours! In the several weeks I have been blogging, I have been carefully avoiding the largest ...

I submitt this , as a retort to those who say I am humorless, and do not provide sufficient discussion of ways in which to survive percariou...

By the NFL's desire to be more wholesome than apple pie, and by the grace of God, we are delivered from aberrant halftime show drivel th...

I just read a wonderful story about the meek, and their inheritance of the earth . The author is Carolyn Arends (a Canadian - to whom I am p...

This is worthy of reading and reflection. In a world increasingly set upon the idea that "God is dead", our children have much t...

In March of 1956, Winston Church gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri with this remarkable quote: From Stettin in...

From John 15:12 - My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life fo...

Daily Thought from John Stott: Instinctively we know that we cannot box God up in any conceptual framework of our own devising, and that ...

As all seven of you readers know, I have randomly touched here on the concept of a "Dead Church", working from one of my favorite ...

During my lunch hour reading, I came across this piece in today's Wall Street Journal. Humility is something lacking in our cultural lan...

The Berlin Wall - circa 1984. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" I think God had lots to do with it too! Last night , I ...

The early returns are in, and maybe I have it wrong - I just heard a probable 60% voter turn-out on Fox News. Given the fact that one might ...

Tomorrow the people of Iraq will be given, for the first time in far too long, the privilege of voting. In my reading of the Wall Street Jou...