Thy Grace is Sufficient

Last Wednesday There are many words that describe New Orleans today. The first word that comes to mind is broken . Seven months post Katrina...

Tuesday was another day spent with further cleaning and polishing the sanctuary of Canal Street church. This was a special privilege, as thi...

Monday Afternoon The condition of Canal Street Church , seven months after Katrina still leaves much to be desired, and yet, much has been a...

It has been a very busy week. Piling, cleaning, sawing, nailing, sweeping, vacuuming (sort of...using a defective vacuum), listening, explor...

Greetings from the Crescent City. The Home of Jazz. New Orleans. (for enlargements of any photo, merely click on the photo) A city of contra...

Its Spring Break week next week for the kids. About a month ago, my wife and I began a discussion with our girls, now 12 and 15, about what ...

The whole situation in Iraq is painfully difficult, beyond my ability to fully comprehend. However, I would like all six of you who faithful...

Its not over until the Fat Lady sings. Sometimes, life surprises you. Tonight, my favorite team in college basketball pulled a shocker of a ...

Today, on the way to work, I heard this , the story of this . Based on my recent musings about this life, I find the words of Henry O. Gusl...

I am contacting those responsible for the new pastor search at my church. I may have located a potential candidate. I mean talk about emerge...

Something remarkable happened today. In the frigid cold of Nome, Alaska, Rachel Scdoris , who is legally blind and just 20 years old, just f...

I am 47 years old. For some reason, I find myself preoccupied often with the concept of time . If there only was a way in which one could fr...

So, last week I am having one of my rare quiet lunches. Just me and several back issues of the Wall Street Journal (the world's most exc...

I know this remarkable fellow. Rob Asghar . He has lead a most interesting life. Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of this life is h...

To begin with, if the image at left does not give you some form of the willies, then you might want to move right along, perhaps to another ...

A week ago tomorrow was the beginning of Lent. A time of reflection, repentance, submission, and above all, a six week season of remembering...

Today, my wife and I took a quick getaway trip to San Diego (work thing for me). We had planned to visit this church , where our friend is a...

Just go read this . It says it all.

This has been a typically busy week, which explains in part my lack of dispatches from South Pasadena. However, the past 24 hours have been ...

For the past couple of days...I have not had much to say here. But I have been thinking about some wonderful people who serve the youth at o...

I am married to a Canadian. My wife Nancy was born and raised in Canada, and received her US citizenship several years ago. After the events...

I have this friend who is a rocket scientist. Really. He works at JPL, and he supervises the development of little things like this . His na...

Oh my gosh...oh my gosh....oh my gosh!! I am soooo excited!! Forget the Olympics! They have finally invented the most outstandingly cool and...

Talk about character. My new Olympic hero, did not finish gold, silver, or bronze. Kelly Clark finished fourth, out of the medals. But not...

Here are two questions to ponder: What issues in our world today do you think God really cares about? What are you doing about them?

If you are listening, the Olympics offer many lessons on the human condition. Take for instance, two athletes, Bode Miller and Lindsay Kildo...

Alright people. Stop reading blogs, and watch the Olympics....

The imagery and concept of submission has been something that has always resonated in my soul. I am not sure why. Perhaps it is because I fe...

Ok, so the cool thing, according to George Barna might be to forget the building, forget the coffee socials. Forget the nursery for the litt...

Dear Heather: Tonight, our house was full of sound and fury. A gaggle of lovely young ladies came for your 12th birthday party. Screaming, l...

Dear Kelly: Fifteen years ago tonight, your Mom and I were waiting. Waiting for something; a birth. Waiting for someone; and it was you. You...

Surely those of you older than 40 remember Hugo, The Abominable Snowman. Tunneling underground to Palm Springs for vacation, Bugs and Daffy ...

Perhaps I have done something rather irrational. I have recently agreed to serve a three year term as elder at my church. This is the same c...

In 1984, through a rather strange series of events, I had the opportunity to attend the National Prayer Breakfast. It was a remarkable time...

As I move deeper into middle age, I am often struck by the sheer mass of humanity. Today, unusually, I spent about two hours on the LA freew...

The past year has been a most interesting one for myself and our family. We have watched our once-great church home of some 17 years go thr...

In the fall of 1987, a group of my friends from Hollywood Presbyterian Church finally realized a dream that was years in the making. But it ...

Here is a great review of a controversial book, by a church layperson. This is in keeping with my previous thoughts, and those ongoing of ...

Happy 250th, big guy. The world is so much richer because of your music.

Does this picture bother you? My good friend, Mark Roberts and I were walking back from the beach several months ago, our families in tow. ...

I have these friends. Actually, several of them. They love Jesus, and want to serve him. They are serious about their faith, but they are al...