Thy Grace is Sufficient

Jean Vanier is a most amazing man, who, indirectly has affected the lives of two of my close friends, as well as a far more expansive effo...

About 12 days ago, we pulled the kids out of school and spent the day at Disneyland. Just the four of us, as a family. It was very fun to be...

This is the twilight sky out our back door, looking west. It has been a full and happy Holiday Season for us. I would show more photos of ...

I have just discovered a wonderful Christmas movie, and it only took me 49 years to find it. The Bishop's Wife , produced in 1947, i...

We Americans are a completely nutty bunch, and I have found evidence of this at a lovely seasonal web site known as Tacky Christmas Yards ....

And I was going to watch SportsCenter ....... But something else happened. I watched a choir. Now mind you, I am not a huge choir aficionad...

Please note my Buzz Lightyear score to the left. Then go here , and note the pathetically wimpy score of a fellow who has attended Princeto...

The caption for this video at Youtube reads: "Excerpt from "Carols from Prague": Performed by the Choir of Christ Church Cath...

I just needed to share this. I had a bike exactly like this when I was 11 years old. Complete with stick-shift and shock absorber. Now, I dr...

We purchased the Christmas tree yesterday, and had brief moments of happy family togetherness. Shown here are Nancy and I mimicking the phot...

Water polo. Alabama. 8 th grade. The Big Apple. Softball. Soccer. Ordination. Considering private school. Junior year, college ahead. A los...

This year I have realized, perhaps in a clearer way, that Christmas is all screwed up. By this, I mean our American version of Christmas, wh...

Its Christmas time. Advent. A time of expectation. But what are we expecting? There are lots of souls this Christmas who have very little...

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...