No Country For Old Men
I finally saw the movie "No Country For Old Men" this past weekend. It was a great movie, the best I've seen in a long time. One of the things that I appreciated about the [...]
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Beautiful day
This just in... it is already summer time in San Diego! I love it. I am sitting on the patio of a coffee shop, studying for this Sunday's message, enjoying the fact that it is [...]
Calvin on Prayer
I was studying for Jesus' teaching on prayer in the Sermon on the Mount and I ran across this John Calvin quote on prayer. I love the way frames prayer: “Believers do not pray with [...]
Deep Church – 1
The whole premise of the book Deep Church is that the church will benefit from finding a middle ground between the traditional (which seems to be used to represent both liturgical and fundamental) and emerging [...]
Barrels of Joy – John 2
Journey in John - Day 2 In John's intentional telling of his account of Jesus' life, he describes the first miracle Jesus did. The setting was at a wedding. It was a wedding where the [...]
Give Us Boldness Give Us You
I am remembering something I’ve heard several times but that Ryan said a few weeks ago. “The primary sign of the Holy Spirit’s presence is someones life is boldness; gospel proclaiming boldness.” You see this [...]
New Year!
As we enter 2010 my mind is just buzzing with ministry ideas, hopes, dreams, and expectations. I have this sense in me that God wants to do some great things in the coming year. This [...]
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Lift Up My Eyes
This is one of those lessons that I think I needed to relearn. It has come in the form of our church prayer focus (which we never want to go away, by the way). One [...]
flying by
Isn't it true that the moments we want to freeze seem to fly by the fastest? I never really have understood why that is, but it proves true time after time. Over Christmas I had the chance [...]
