sacred journeys

I got so tired of the blog updates, and losing posts — that I gave up blogging for a couple of weeks. However (crossing my fingers) — voxtropolis, my blogging host has resolved their issues.
A friend of ours (Dan) — sent this email yesterday:
From: Dan ….
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:12 PM
To: Greg Larson
Subject: dude, […]

So my friend Ed took me out to this fabulous Japanese restaurant in Koreatown earlier this week.
Someday, they will make a camera on phones that do not take absolute junk photos, but until they do — this is as good as it gets…

Even though it is hard to tell, the food came around on a […]

We don’t live in south Los Angeles, but every time you drive to LAX, or go past downtown, or take the Metro to Long Beach — you are going through, or close to south-central (even though that is not the politically correct way to call south LA these days).
Anyway, read this article today in […]

So driving around, and took a couple of shots of the economically depressed neighborhood….

Then Caleb and I are stopped at a light, and what drives by — but a Ferrari….

The juxtaposition of the scenes — was kind of crazy & funny at the same time. Some of the apartments around Kairos have many people […]

So, I finally got around to surfing in the Pacific. It was unbelievably cold, and unbelievably fun. However, not sure you could call what I was doing — surfing. I laid on top of the surfboard a lot and got crushed by a couple of waves. However, I am crazy enough to go back out […]

Well, we are not having an Oscar party tonight to view the Academy Awards. We could not switch our Kairos gathering for the morning - because Hope and Kairos are allowing another church to temporarily use our building. So, we did not feel like we could cancel the gathering just for the Oscars. To […]

So, overall living in LA — I rarely feel ‘not safe’. Yesterday however, I kept hearing these helicopters overhead & was wondering what was going on. I did not have time to watch the news last night, and my radio is dead in my car — so today I go on-line & see this…
“Gang mayhem […]

“….we are wanting to see the shalom of God breaking out into the world in God’s people.’’

A photo from where we meet at Kairos — overlooking our neighborhood of Hollywood / Los Angeles.

Pretty good article on Tim Keller in Newsweek –
The Smart Shepherd. A New York pastor who says he thinks too much wants to bring his Christian message to the world.

A good quote from the article: “Keller is also reaching out to young, urban Christians around the world, offering to help them build churches like his….’It’s […]

There are surely much, much, much bigger things to worry about in this world however, when I read this LA Times article — I thought “No, tell me it isn’t so…. that some luxury houses might be built close to the Hollywood sign”
Homes could rise on ridge near Hollywood sign