Thy Grace is Sufficient

For my good friend, Rob Asghar : - Cheerleading, tumbling lessons and camps since age 3: $30,000 - Annual cost of attending USC: $ 50,000...

Just heard this on the radio. Dr. Richard Mouw President of Fuller Seminary was recently being interviewed by a newspaper reporter. The rep...

If you look for them, life can be full of little moments of blessing. This fall, our oldest daughter Kelly has started high school - rather ...

....and where we need to go .

I am aware that this blog has resulted in the purchase of at least one book in the past. Stunning results. May I then, with my vast and impr...

Tonight, as I was cleaning the paper-strewn floor of our study (the place where we have the desktop PC and our girls do their homework) I fo...

After all my musing about church, the search is over. I am done, I have found it ! And, I get a pony.

Over the past several weeks, I have posted several pieces here on issues related to the recent troubles at my church. I had a plan to ration...

To begin, a disclaimer. I am not a theologian, but I have been around things Christian long enough to be dangerous. Sort of like having a le...

In prior weeks, I have been processing a bit of the history and struggle of an iconic church in American evangelical history. About 10 ye...

Tonight I witnessed what has to have been one of the greatest college football games of all time. The National Championship on the line. Tex...

After months of my teasing, encouraging, humoring, pleading, and cajoling, my good friend, Dr. Neil McLeod has decided to start his own blog...

It's New Year's. I flipped on CNN last night, and found (as usual) thousands of people already standing in 36 degree drizzling rain,...

As the events of the past year have shown us, the universal church is still one of the most visible forms of the Body of Christ. But often,...

The picture here is from a gathering at our home about a week ago, when friends from five families, all old friends from church from many ye...

This is our house, last night, Christmas Eve. Several years ago my sweet wife, ever the initiator and go-getter, proposed that our entire bl...

Its almost Christmas. While many of us will be enjoying friends, family, and home this weekend, many of our nation's finest will not be ...

Madonna del Magnificat - Sandro Botticelli - Florence, Italy 1480 Over the course of the past year, I have been trying to figure out more ...

The Ghosts in the Attic By way of introduction, my friend Rob Asghar has perhaps the most thoughtful perspective on all of these events I ha...

The past year or so in the life of our church has been really difficult. This is something that is hard for me to write about, as over the c...

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...