Month: August 2015

My family is in Idaho this week while my wife interviews for jobs in the area. As I write this I am sitting in my favorite Boise coffee shop feeling an acute awareness of a future rapidly approaching. For years…

“God is in control”… “God has a good plan”… “God doesn’t abandon those he loves”… There are plenty of things we say about God and plenty of things we believe about God.  The trouble is we don’t always say what…

I have spent many a dark night looking up into the sky.  In high school I remember looking up at the stars wondering if loneliness was the default emotion of humanity.  In all these years since asking such a teenage…

This is the 3rd post of a 3-Part Series of John 21 John 21:15-19 The breakfast is over, and now Jesus and Peter take a walk along the shore.  Peter has been waiting to tell Jesus how sorry and ashamed…

This is the second post in a three part series on John 21 John 21:9-14 After Peter and the boys get to the shore, Jesus has a breakfast planned for them.  But there wasn’t a person there who thought this…

This is the first post in a 3 part series on John 21. John 21:1-8 “I’m going fishing!”  So much had happened.  Peter watched Jesus carried away, tortured, mocked, crucified, and die.  But as Peter went fishing, he was probably thinking about…

  Tuesday I will begin posting a 3-Part Series looking at the “slow repair” of Peter in John 21. Most of us look for a mentor and inspiration in people who have “made it” or “arrived”.  We stomach their past failures…

For my birthday this year I was given an unusually thick greeting card envelope.  Inside the standard birthday card my mother had placed another card.  It was an old Christmas card first given to me by a family friend when I…

This week I sent an email to some of my closest friends recounting the last year and sharing my future plans.  In 950 words I wrote what I thought would be significant for my friends to know about me and…

I live on the side of a city full of half-upgraded houses with dusty cars in dire need of a mechanic’s touch.  It’s the side of town constantly displaying the neediness most attempt to hide behind a freshly painted smile or…