sacred journeys

Great article from England (The Times online)
In a moving extract from a new book to mark Mencap’s 60th birthday, the Times chief sports writer Simon Barnes describes life with his five-year-old son Eddie, who has Down’s syndrome

Here is an excerpt:
At the hospital, when they discovered on the scan that Down’s syndrome was a possibility, they […]

My family and I are getting stoked about going to see The Nativity.

It looks like has been made extremely well, but we’ll let you know after we see it. There was a very interesting article in the LA Times last week about New Line cinema (the makers of the Lord of the Rings movies, among […]

Psalms 138:3 On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul.
Eugene Peterson: The soul that praises God develops sinews of strength. Without praise our spirits become anemic and flabby. Praise stretches us to respond to God at full capacity and gives heartiness to faith.
Prayer: Mighty God, in the same way […]

I sent this email to the canvas group (small group), that my family and I are involved with. We had talked about evangelism this past week and there was an email that got sent out after our time from the leader of the group (Eugene). I replied to everyone in the group with my thoughts. […]

Sorry, forgot to post this yesterday. For copyright purposes — this is from the Wall Street Journal. I think I have read it every Thanksgiving since about 1991.

The Desolate Wilderness
Nathaniel Morton describes what he and other Pilgrims saw in 1620.
Here beginneth the chronicle of those memorable circumstances of the year 1620, as recorded by Nathaniel […]

It has been a very interesting past few months here in Los Angeles. There are moments when I have to almost pinch myself that my wife, kids and I get to be out here, work with this ministry as a family and serve with some really remarkable, humble people out here (I hope that does […]

Great quote from a CT article on Starbucks & church — Burned by branding
“What is the church to learn? That’s what the comment section is for, but I’ll start with this thought. If the church is to be merely a dispenser of spiritual goods and advice, a place people pass through to get their religion […]

So, this morning I was trying to do something kind for my wife Michelle…

She had bought a very basic Krups coffee pot for $10 last year, on one of those crazy ‘day-after-Thanksgiving sale’s’, and after almost exactly a year - its life expired. So, since we don’t have a coffee maker in our house yet, […]

well, it has been a crazy, eventful, busy weekend here in Minnesota…
I was thinking for a number of weeks, that I needed to come back into town for a few days because there were still some people who really wanted to sit down face -to-face to hear more about the ministry in LA, but we […]

So, I needed to go to Minnesota for a couple of days & since the last time I went to LAX I missed my flight (which was the 1st time in my life that happened, & one of the most frustrating things ever!) — I decided to take the Metro all the way (which is […]