Featured: The dissolution of a dream ...
A big, beautiful spider has set up her home outside my kitchen window. I have grown attached to her presence and greet her each morning, watching her work or sleep while I take my first few sips of coffee. For those who hate spiders, I see you. But she is where she belongs (outside) and […]
Sorry for the absence. My son had emergency surgery a couple weeks ago and I had to make an unplanned trip out east. One major learning during this experience: Simple human kindness is a big deal. The morning after we received the distressing phone call that our son was in surgery I was on the […]
This is what I read today in Mark Labberton’s book, The Dangerous Act of Worship: “At a worship service I attended a couple of years ago, my attention was drawn to the enthusiastic worship leader. He opened our time with prayer, asking God to meet us … Then he turned to face forward, standing just […]
Tonight our A Way of Life class is discussing the chapter from the first manual on worship. This reminded me that I have Mark Labberton’s book “The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice” on my shelf. So I opened it up and started to read … Whoa ... I am going to […]
" ... there is only one thing that separates us from God, and it is not our sin. It is our self-righteousness." (James Bryan Smith - The Good and Beautiful God)
Prayer is confusing to us. We have received all kinds of mixed messages … and often we feel paralyzed, inadequate and guilty. I have to believe God does not want us to feel this way. He just wants us to come to him as we are with what we have and to do our best. […]
