Holiness Reeducation

My daughter keeps asking, “Dad is Advent when we give up stuff and make a list of goals or when we have the calendar and the candles?” I am not sure if this makes me want to add more fasting to Advent or more candles to Lent. Either way, it is indeed the season of [...]

Some times you plant the seed, some times you water the soil, sometimes you do the weeding, and sometimes when you are really privileged you get to bring in the harvest. Those roles are all vitally important in creating a crop. They are all essential for the desired end result to be  achieved.  In the [...]

The secret to great Chili, thoughts on the timing of God, and tough days for virtually every team I root for, all in today’s ramblings… Cooking Chili for Jesus Saturday night our church hosted a Chili Cook Off and Cookie Bake Off to benefit our local food pantry. It was awesome. We had over twenty [...]

Happy Reformation Day for all of you Protestants out there. Almost 500 years ago Martin Luther, writing more as a scholar than an intended reformer sparked a wave of transformation that has changed the very fabric of Christianity. I mean without Luther we would never have ended up with the Single Men Between the age [...]

Halloween is just a couple of days away and the Arthurs are getting ready. Logan and I are going as Mario and Luigi this year and Sophie is going to be Wonder Woman. Gretchen decided she could opt out of dressing up since she is going to be at home handing out the candy. (I [...]

A beautiful fall weekend in Indiana birthed a wonderful day of worship at DCC yesterday. What a privilege it is to proclaim the love of God each week. There is an almost indescribable joy in watching grace fall on a congregation and begin to work its way into the hearts of those gathered. It is [...]

If you don’t get the picture, don’t worry about it. Just trust a Star Wars fan that it is really funny. This picture has me thinking about regret today. My personality is not one that is prone to dwell on regrets all that often, but my humanity certainly has left me with a multitude of [...]

Just a birthday shout out today to my precious girl. Can’t believe we are already halfway to 18. Too fast….

What happens when we not only put the cart before the horse, but sometimes put the horse in the cart? That is the question I have been pondering for the past week since my time with Mike Breen and the great folks at 3DM. One of the most thought provoking studies we did was looking [...]

When Gretchen and I headed off to Colorado to for seminary I was full of excitement for the opportunity to learn and to explore ministry. We were freshly married (as in we moved into seminary housing the week before we got married) and I needed a job. So I began to look around at the [...]