Thy Grace is Sufficient

Here is a new blog to watch , from the editors of Leadership magazine. Those of us who care for the church, even though it sometimes drives ...

The darling of the world is come, And fit it is, we find a room To welcome Him. The nobler part Of all the house here, is the heart, Which w...

What can I say? A song about a very strange love. They are at it again . I just want to know what is with the guy in the background?

Christmas seems to be more of a wonderful and unsearchable mystery to me each year. Last night I was pleasantly surprised by this John Rutte...

Caption: "Santa has clearly had enough, after a 13 hour shift at Feldman's Discount Appliance Barn. By secretly applying a 250 volt...

As long as I can remember, I have been watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas". We will watch it again this weekend, as is our family...

From Henri Nouwen: "For us who still live in time, it is important not to act as if the new life in Christ is something we can comprehe...

It was a relatively regular day. Off at 7:30 AM with the girls for drop-off at high school. Then to the office for a typical morning on the ...

Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop The Nativity, probably c. 1445 Samuel H. Kress Collection National Gallery of Art Yesterday, I heard this pie...

First......do all Emergent Church People look and act the same? So, is Emergent, in its own way, just as conformist as the rest of us? Go he...

I had lunch today with a new friend, a recent graduate of Fuller Seminary, with a Master of Arts in Christian Leadership . My friend, Michae...

As we approach the Holidays I want to share with you the joy of Christmas, as seen by a child. I wonder if this Santa ever returned to the r...

As perhaps most of you know, the most important college football game of the year will be happening this weekend. As typical, I can make a ...

It is sad but true. So many pastors get into their profession because of a deep seated, yet unmet need to be noticed by others. I found thi...

Over the past 11 months that I have been blogging, I have often stopped to wonder if this whole blogging thing makes any difference. I still...

Just a moment between finishing the sausage, apple, and sage stuffing recipe and moving on to icing the Killer Chocolate Cake. This is our n...

We think we know it all. Read this .

This is my friend Mike, pastor of Canal Street Presbyterian church in New Orleans. That is his home to his left, which survived largely und...

Pictured to the left is the "No Nombres", my 11-year old daughter's AYSO soccer team. No Nombres translated from Spanish is ...

It has been a long time since a short film trailer captivated my heart like this. Watch it. I have ordered the rough cut DVD, and might invi...

On Tuesday afternoon in DC, I cheated. I took the afternoon off from my seminars and went to the National Gallery of Art. And I was interest...

If we believe that God inhabits all of Creation, interesting things can happen. Now, I am naturally an introvert, but I mostly compensate i...

I have been here in DC for two days now, and will be heading home early tomorrow. This has been an interesting and rewarding time, where I h...

This just in. The nation's capital is under threat from an as yet named terrorist. This man, resembling a semi-balding, middle-aged subu...

Greetings from 37,000 feet above Kansas. I am enroute to Washington DC for the Fall Annual Meeting of the Counselors of Real Estate. I will ...

The couple in the center of the photo are Roland and Betty Norris, of Arcadia, California. This picture was taken in 1971 at a Petroleum Clu...

I don't know a thing about Sara McLachlan's theology, but she gets this . Watch this . (HT to Rhett Smith )

This is the illusion that I feel as if I have lived under for some 20-odd years in the Christian culture: "Oh come and join our Happy C...

Today my friend Tod Bolsinger has an interesting post about what may be a good book. Go look. As a part of the post, Tod directs us to the ...

Last night my wife and I had the pleasure of viewing the play "The Boys Next Door" by the Actor's Coop , which has been perfo...

Over the past several years, I have heard a swirl of differing opinions on the whole Harry Potter phenom. While some opinions are rather ill...

Here is something interesting. When I Google "the church drunk uncle", I get my own blog ! Chalk up another great blow on my behal...

Rock on .

More from Henri Nouwen : "Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we ...

Several days ago, I shared with you about Dr. David Scholer . If you want to hear a heartfelt message about living with cancer, go here . I ...

The casket of civil rights icon Rosa Parks lays in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 in Washington....

From the Archives at Cal Tech - Einstein's calculations for the meaning of life have been uncovered!

In about two weeks, my Mom and Dad, now 84 and 85, will be moving here . Moving to a two bedroom unit in a brand new assisted living facilit...

Tonight, I ate my dinner, in the car. In the driveway, in the dark. No, I did not get in trouble with my wife. I was glued to the TV set, an...

This is David Scholer. He is a professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary near our home. We have a connection to Dr. Scholer through our...

In my morning reading....I came across this: Often we hear the remark that we have live in the world without being of the world. But it may ...

After the post Friday on Things Emergent for John, I have been doing just a small bit of fishing around on this topic, and I have a (middle ...

At last, my struggles are over. I have found the perfect church. Robert Schullers' I & II would be so proud. Only problem, if you l...

This photograph is about 13 years old. That fine fellow there with the lovely young lady (our daughter Kelly - now 14 years old) at the pian...

In light of this , words from Henri Nouwen: Our faith in God who sent his Son to become God-with-us and who, with his Son, sent his Spirit t...