My friend, Danny, shared this quote on his blog the other day.  This one hurts.  Sad thing, like many other things - I won’t do much about this.  
“If you REALLY believe in the saving power of Jesus Christ then why in the world would you show up at church every single Sunday without a [...]

I love this realistic picture Ronald Rolheiser paints of the church.
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murders, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.  It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To [...]

Honestly I don’t have much to say.  I hate when I get like this.  I feel like I am just rambling, but on the flip side I feel like I need to write something.  I mean…what’s the point of a blog if you don’t write anything anyway.  
I guess I will share something that I [...]

My Lifes a painting I’ve done blind
With each brushstroke you’ll see me blur every solid line
Over this Canvas I have stood with no one left beside me.
no on to decide if its good.
- “Sing” / The Classic Crime /  The Silver Cord
So I have been listening to the new The Classic Crime album and was [...]

So it’s 10 after 11 and I’m laying here in bed thinking about stuff and a question that’s popped into my head from earlier today is this:
Has the church, in it’s whole, lost the concept and demonstration of grace?
While I’m not justifying sin, etc. I wonder has the church become more of a institution that [...]

Today I was catching up on some podcasts from last week that I had not gotten a chance to listen to. I listen to two on a regular basis, as I have probably mentioned before, but one of them is Cornerstone Simi church in Simi Valley, CA. I can’t quite remember how I [...]

I think this is a really one…for a few days anyway. I’ve had a bit on my mind since yesterday morning and I’m processing it yet.  In some aspects I’m not sure how to or what to do with it.  Maybe if just needs to go into my private journal for safe keeping.  But with [...]

There isn’t much to this post other than the fact that I have a lot on my heart right now.  Lot’s of personal stuff that I’ve been thinking about today.  I’ve know I’ve been neglecting the fact that I have some stuff I need to deal with, and allowing God to change me.  I’m simply [...]

Not much that needs to be said about this.

(HT: Cory Mann)

Marriage.  This one scares me.  Not sure why.  I’m afraid of failure I suppose.  I’m afraid of not being suited for a particular moment or time when someone or a family depends on me.  I’m afraid of being someone I don’t want to be, and don’t know how to change that.  Sometimes I lay awake [...]

This is usually something that I don’t touch with a ten-foot-pole.  I neither care to much about it either.  But last evening I watched Jesus Camp, the movie. It got me to start thinking about all this, and the agendas we Christians have in trying to ‘influence’ the world.  I may really not know what I am talking [...]

This is a cop-out type of confession, I suppose.  I’ve been a bit tired lately and thought I might take a break for a few days.  I’m proud of myself so far for being able to stick with it this long so far.  Today I honestly wasn’t in one of those moods to post anything. [...]

I’m trying not to be boastful or prideful, but I enjoy (not even sure that is the correct word) listening to people. What do I mean by listen?  I desire to help people, I like to listen to the things about their life, struggles, victories, challenges, weakeness, etc.  This is who I am.  I desire [...]

I’m kinda taking a break on this series for the day. I was going to write something else last night, but a tweet came across twitter and I think I’d rather share the link that was in the tweet rather than what I had planned.
I follow Jason Powell’s blog and twitter. Jason [...]

I’ll be honesty I don’t feel like writing this right now.  I feel like I am running out of steam.  I’m tired.  Its been pretty hot and humid and the heat has just been sucking the energy out of me.  But I am going to give it a shot anyway.
One thing I struggle with almost [...]