Aug 8, 2022Believe it or notI wanted to share some old wrinkled-up personal notes that I have lying around about the nature of the Gospel. Sharing them here helps them sink into my brain so that I (hopefully) don’t make a mess of things in the pulpit. Okay, here we go… The first thing is…Christianity2 min readChristianity2 min read
Aug 5, 2022You are splendidly insignificant and uselessYeah… Isn’t it marvelous? In our culture today, we’re addicted to our significance. We’re hooked on being special. As good as this should feel, it is utter torture. As freeing as it should be, it’s actually imprisoning. But it’s all made up. All the pressure is actually off. All of that importance…1 min read1 min read
May 25, 2022Member-onlyI got to pick her up from school todayI feel extremely blessed as I write this and I’ll tell you why… I dropped my daughter off at school today (she’s in 2nd grade). And I got to pick her up. And we went to the beach and then I took her to gymnastics and then we came home…Love4 min readLove4 min read
May 14, 2022A quick reminderFaith is only for one thing… Your proper enjoyment of what already is always has been and always will be forevermore world without end. Your faith doesn’t change God’s mind about you one iota. God’s crazy bonkers in love with you. And God knows everything about you. (Even more than you know about yourself.) So…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
May 9, 2022Member-onlyDriven by expectation and boredomRory is at such a sweet and lifeful age… She’s not an adolescent yet which means that she hasn’t reached the age of wanting to sleep until noon. She wakes up with the sun and immediately wants to know… What are we gonna do today, Dad?! Her driving internal questions…Life3 min readLife3 min read
May 7, 2022Go to hell?I’m convinced that heaven is truly the only real game in town. It’s happening all around us all of the time. Before our little pruney human hearts stop beating and after. Heaven is the eternal party we’ve all been included in since before the dawn of time. We can, however…Christianity1 min readChristianity1 min read
May 4, 2022Adding the “I” to “I love you”Putting this trinity of words back into place — Intimacy is weird… I hate to admit it, but I’m not a very intimate person. Not just with my wife but with everyone in my life. Now, I don’t speak of intimacy in purely romantic terms. I see intimacy as a deeper and more vulnerable (dare I say it) way…Love3 min readLove3 min read
May 2, 2022Let’s talk about this whole “Jesus Saves” thing…The whole “Jesus is my savior,” or, “Jesus saves,” thing kinda gives me cringy shivers whenever I hear or read the phrase in our modern culture. The energy or feeling-tone that statement usually carries never hits me in an authentic way. It’s so often frantic and pushy. Egh… I guess…Christianity2 min readChristianity2 min read
Apr 29, 2022The world does not determine your valueLooking at any baby, you can see that from the first breath, they are whole and complete as humans. No one expects a thing from a newborn. Their value is innate. It’s a given. And then, life moves along. The newborn grows up. And in that time, the world around…Life2 min readLife2 min read
Apr 27, 2022Where’s God?God seems hidden to us because we define presence in a physical way. And physical presence is limited. For me to be present to my daughter who calls for me from across the house (again), I have to get up from the couch and dust off the crumbles of Ruffles…Spirtuality1 min readSpirtuality1 min read
