Thy Grace is Sufficient

For more that a decade, "In The Bleak Midwinter" has been one of my favorite carols. I love this song both for its stirring descri...

I want this man to teach my kids. I will take passion over conformity any day.

This past Sunday was the first Sunday in Advent. I did not give it much thought, until much later in the day. My wife and I are in the mids...

Reality has returned. The sun again rises in the east, and just as winter means colder weather, SC has again beat UCLA. For those of you con...

Change is in the air, and it is a welcome thing. The other day I opened the Wall Street Journal and spotted a full page ad, pictured at lef...

This painting hangs over the fireplace in our family room; it has been there since we added the family room on to our house, almost six yea...

The following was written in the depths of the Civil War; the greatest war in American history. More than 3 million fought - 600,000 died. I...

The other night I took a long walk in the fog, and listened on my Ipod to this conversation . Listening while walking felt like moving into...

I have been labeled! It seems that the fine, handsome, well-groomed, and upstanding people at The High Calling in Texas have decided that I ...

Several years ago, I read a book that changed my perspective of raising teenagers. The Primal Teen is a book that explains in new ways what...

Click the image to see today's For Better or For Worse. During the declining years of his life, this was very much who my Dad was. He co...

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards are releasing an album later this month. The producer, John Cohen was interviewed this morning on NPR. As it...

For more than 10 years, we had the privilege of listening to this man preach the Gospel each Sunday. He went on to become Chaplain of the U...

Do you remember the feeling? That feeling of getting back your grade on your high school test, and the result was way, way less than what y...

Three weeks ago today, my Dad died. He was 87 years old, and a former B17 instructor and pilot. Today, former Brigadier General Paul Tibbit...

I read something today that was written seven years ago. However, this article will likely not go out of vogue for at least another ten yea...

For a moving visual summary of the devastation of Malibu Presbyterian Church, go here. I traded emails with my friend Neal Nybo this morning...

From the pen of Henri Nouwen: "Loving the Church does not require romantic emotions. It requires the will to see the living Christ amon...

This is a little bit of heaven in this: I just wonder if my buddy KC can do this yet?

Yesterday, Malibu Presbyterian Church burned to the ground. A holy place, so many memories, seemingly lost in wind whipped fire that must ha...

Delusional Disorder is defined as a person who has "irrational beliefs, held with a high level of conviction, that are highly resistan...

Its the season of nutty college football in Westwood. First we loose to just about the worst team in the country in Notre Dame, then we BEA...

"Picture Of Jesus" - Ben Harper It hangs above my altar Like they hung him from a cross I keep one in my wallet For the times I fe...

It has been a remarkable week. One week ago this evening, I sat by my father's bedside, listening with concern to his irregular Cheyne-S...

Sara Groves is one of my two (that is all I like) favorite Christian artists. A while back, she went to Rwanda, to the Killing Fields. This...

This morning, at 8:53 AM, my Dad left this earth, bound for Someplace Far Better. The feelings, emotions, and words are still hard to form i...

First the Bad News. UCLA was defeated by just about the worst team in college football yesterday; the semi-fighting (more like a pillow fi...

I have often had a frustration with some pastors I have known. Often, they don't get really involved in the street-level lives of their ...

Over the past year or so, I have made a new friend. His name is Michael Eaton. He is a husband, father (of perhaps the world's cutest ...

My college chum Julie has made some very fair observations of Christian culture that I feel need a bit of comment. The post is based on a b...

Ok, word is out they are building one of these babies in Universal City right now. I think I wanna go for my 50th Birthday Party!

I am considering purchasing a new PC for the office. One problem; said purchase will require I install 1,500 tons of air conditioning on th...

I have loved the Wall Street Journal from the very first days I picked up, after leaving the Economics program at UCLA. Last week, there was...

If you can't have a sense of humor, you should not be in this men's group...

He was sitting in his wheelchair. I sat down next to him, in the bright, sunlit room where he spends his days now. His head is bent forward ...

So, does it feel hot out? For some time now, I have been frustrated by the lack of rational thought concerning global warming . Finally, it...

On my way to work today, I spotted two workers, climbing a ladder, to place an American flag on the exterior of a building. It was a large f...

Found out about this movie by reading Relevant Magazine today. I am going to see it!

I am encouraged by something that some might find as discouraging. This is an image of arguably one of the most recognizable spiritual model...

St Stephen's Cathedral - Vienna I am still digesting all the information and feelings I took in recently in my trip to the PGF Conferen...