Holiness Reeducation

There are certain moments as a parent that you dream about. You dream about taking your kid home from the hospital that first time. You dream about first words and first steps. You dream that one day they will become a professional athlete and pay off your mortgage. And then there is the Star Wars […]

It is hard to really express all the things that moms teach us in life. I often wonder how much of who I am has been shaped by my mom without me even realizing it. I realize that much of who I am comes from her presence in my life, but how much of me […]

Do I live my live in expectation of God showing up and demonstrating his power? Do I want God to do this? Do I believe that God can do this? Do I make space for God to do this? I remember a conversation with my mentor Raegan years ago at Christ Church. We were talking […]

Let’s start by talking about bras Back in December our church became the shipping site for Free the Girls. All the bra donations that are sent in to be used by the women in Mozambique (and soon to be other countries!) are shipped to our church. At first the boxes started showing up a couple […]

Fantastic games, the movement of the Holy Spirit, the subtle racism of sports coverage and more in this week’s ramblings… I am finishing up Mike Breen’s Leading Kingdom Movements this week. Yesterday in my reading he was talking about our vast need for the power of the Holy Spirit to do the miraculous in our […]

Every couple of months it seems I add another blog post looking at the difficult and very divisive issue of homosexuality and the church. Why do I keep coming back to this topic? Well I can promise you it isn’t because I want to drive us the reader stats for my blog. The main reason […]

Happy Easter! I trust that your Easter was as fabulous as the one we enjoyed yesterday. It was a great day gathered in worship and a wonderful family day of celebrating. It was the kind of day that fills your soul and helps you look at the world with hopefulness and cheer. It was so […]

Bacon, basketball, Palm Sunday, being part of a movement, all this and more in today’s ramblings… It was truly a wonderful weekend. Somehow life afforded me rest and abiding during Lent, right before Holy Week. That is almost unprecedented in my time as a pastor. With the kiddos gone for Spring Break Gretchen and I […]

From Nehemiah 6  One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they […]

“I believe that no matter how random things may appear, there’s still a plan.” “I love it when a plan comes together!” – Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith – the A Team The A Team was absolutely my favorite show as a kid. I can remember sitting in the back of my dad’s yellow 1971 Volkswagen […]