Thy Grace is Sufficient

I am in Boston this weekend for a conference. While here, we were presented with a short video that explains, rather completely, what has b...

Almost two years ago, our then just 13 year old sat at our dinner table one early spring night and told us that she was "done" wit...

The Problem I don't know about you, but I am just about fed up with this election. Recently, I wrote a note to a friend via Facebook and...

We interrupt the financial crisis to think about something of great importance. A different kind of Christmas . Only 70 more days to think a...

Kyrie eleison! Lord, have mercy upon us! Christe eleison! Christ have mercy upon us! These are the opening words to "Missa Solemnis...

Here is something from, again, the Wall Street Journal, that is very worthy of consideration:

From Peggy Noonan, in today's Wall Street Journal: Here is the truth, spoken by the increasingly impressive Sen. Tom Coburn: "The r...

I had a good friend call me last week, and leave me a voice mail. His question was "Whats it all worth, man!?" This has been an a...

Today something remarkable dawned upon me. More than 24 years ago this summer, I spent time in Eastern Europe , on a mission to serve the pe...

You know how you are when you are in college; idealistic, hopeful, a dreamer. You actually believe that you can change anything in the worl...

Can it all really fit into a box? Go ahead, imagine putting your professional life in a box. Over the past several days thousands of faithfu...

Reflect . Rebuild .

And they say there is no good sacred music anymore. Friends, I give you "Sonseed": My favorite lyrics: "He is like a Mountie,...

Tomorrow, the worlds largest atom collider powers up for the first time. In the best case the Large Hadron Colliders' ALICE experiment...

Sometimes, God presents you with these little moments. Glimpses of grace and reflection. The feeling that, if maybe for a few moments you ...

I am a Presbyterian. However, after viewing this, I am considering switching to the Methodist Church. Talk about cutting edge...... Based on...

I don't like the booing.....but he does have a point.

I found this web site today. It is wonderful, and haunting. It made me remember the loss of my own Dad, less than a year ago. Even though...

For two weeks, every night, the world was transfixed by mostly ordinary people doing completely extraordinary things. For me, the Olympis is...

For a couple of months now, I have been meaning to write a bit about my memories of growing up. I have never done this before. Blogging is...

This is my favorite moment of the DNC. The sound cut-out is not a conspiracy, you did not miss much of substance. Donald Miller got it ri...

You have to love the Brits:

Tonight was cool on the back porch. I arrived home from work about 7 PM, to smell steak barbecuing in the back yard, the minute I got out o...

For the past two weeks, our house has been much more quiet. No urban hip-hop thumpa-thump has been heard from the Ipod speaker device in on...

Is your church searching for a new pastor? You need look no further. I give you Kanon Tipton:

So far, this is my favorite Olympic moment. A come from behind win in the 4x100 race, after the challenging French team trash-talked the US....

It has been 14 days since we got home, and as we have "re-entered" life here, I have not had much time to add to the blog. Plus,...

I was last in this spot 26 years ago, in 1982. That was the last time I flew west, home to America, after spending a number of weeks in ...

Its our last day in the UK. Today we visited Windsor Castle, and for us all, this one of our favorite stops. The sense of history and majes...

Tonight was our last night in Paris. As a mini-celebration and farewell, we headed to the Champ De Mars , where Napoleon once marched his ...

It has been a busy two days here in Paris. Wonderful weather, and warm! Yesterday morning, in a bow to teenage lethargy and weariness, Nancy...

It is with sadness that I need to interupt our European vacation to report the death of Dr. Randy Pausch . Dr. Pausch's book, The Last ...

Today was a day full of variety. We took the early morning train to the Palace of Versailles , where we thought we might beat the crowds. N...

Today was our first full day in Paris, and we started off with a wonderful whirlwind tour of the Louvre with our new friend Christi Bart, wh...

Enough said.

Yesterday was a full day. We started at the National Art Gallery, visited St. Martin in the Fields, had a low-budget picnic lunch in The Gre...

Today was a brilliantly sunny London day. It was lunch time, and for Londoners, apparently sunshine is a rare commodity. Everyone in the c...

British Culture and Sports Update We were awakened at 7 AM today by our two girls, who came to our door in near hysterics, after watching 3...