Thy Grace is Sufficient

You will need 10:48 to rethink the role of leadership and incentives in business, the church, and non-profits. Its worth the time, and ente...

Friday night at 5 PM we got a call from friends who suddenly had happened upon 18 EXTRA tickets to see the Troubadour Reunion Tour of James ...

This parody is another reason I feeling increasing sad about American Evangelical culture. "Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer ...

Over the course of the past several years, I often find myself reflecting on this journey in life thus far.  How did I get here, to this p...

This video of the effect of the volcano in Iceland on air traffic is amazing. Wait until the end, to see the effect of London coming back o...

This pastor is a complete fool, pandering to the culture in the most shallow way possible.  So are the Shiny News Persons interviewing him. ...

Recently, this fellow asked me my thoughts about this passage from the book of John.  And so, this is what I replied, in an email today: ...

Somewhere, high over the Nebraska corn fields, the ride home got rough. And when it did, a teenage girl hand next to me tightly wrapped itse...

When I was 11 years old, I had a paper route. It started near my house, and continued down Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia, right across the stre...

When you get things for free, for years, why not promote the latest thing they offer you. I must admit, I love Blogger after this latest c...

My, what a difference 12 years can make. A voyage of a couple hundred miles can feel like decades. This past Saturday, Nancy, Heather and I...

My friend Alan Roxburg has an interesting take on the spirit of the Olympics, and how we need to move forward as communities of faith. I lik...

Recently, several good friends asked me to write down my thoughts about our church. They asked me this because, over the past 10 years, I ha...

When I hear that trumpet sound I will lay my burdens down I will lay them deep into the ground Then I'll know that I am glory bound I...

And so it is Lent again. A time of waiting, and preparation, and, if we allow time - for introspection. This past Wednesday was the first d...

Recently, and for the first time, I heard a friend speak the Latin words Deus semper minor . The literal translation of this is "God ...

Turn this up....the sound is not so good, but the song is amazing: My mind is dull and jaded From these years of buy and sell My eyes have s...

Tonight, we are pausing life at our house to watch, via slight DVR delay, the Grammy Awards. And so, in the interest of bringing my 8 read...

What would it be like to come back to life, hundreds of years following your own death? James Taylor was inspired to write a fictional accou...

When I was a kid, Jonathan Winters used to make me laugh so hard, I would cry. He still does. Really now, how much can you do with just a s...

I Used to Dream...About Who I Would Become When I was younger, I used to dream about what my life would be like someday. Someday. When I gr...

'Ring Out, Wild Bells' By Alfred Tennyson - circa 1850 Ring ...

When I was a boy, my parents had a record album of a Christmas concert / dinner party that they played every year. The original event was s...

Christmas is in just four short days. What happened to the time?! Today, for the first time, I heard this Christmas Carol. Its perfe...

This one will be a bit long, so be patient with me. The Lag in Writing I have not been writing here for over a month. I am not really sure ...

For more years than I can count, Nancy always asks me to write the family Christmas Letter. And every year comes the same feeling; how...