I will wait for You patiently
Praying from my deepest point of need
I was listening to this song called ‘Wait’ by a band called By the Tree this evening.  This song is pretty old, but wow this is where I am at right now.  Its been a long two months and the search continues for a [...]

Brad Ruggles writes a live blog of an overview of what Dave Ramsey spoke on at Catalyst (In Atlanta, GA) this week.  I am neither a pastor or have my own church.  I do however have a interest in church leadership, churches, etc.  I’ve also been apart of a church that spoke a lot about [...]

Preface: I don’t mean to offend anyone.  Specifically family members who may read this, just making it clear that it is my response to things in life. 
 
The other night I was reading through a book that I read a few years ago.  It deals with specific relationships and it got my mind thinking about something [...]

So it makes me wonder. Through the experiences that I have had at church why restoration, isn’t really restoration.  I have seen two pastors, I personally know, fail morally in the positions they held, one in particular was in the very church that I was attending.  Why is it that we as believers never reached [...]

I’ve been wresting around this past evening with what to write exactly.  I’m still not sure I’ve come to a complete conclusion, and what I write may be a mess, but here it goes.  
To be honest, I’ve had quite a bit of things on my mind as of late.  Some of those things I [...]

So I’m just curious where did it come from, and what is it?  Last week I was leading a study in the book of James (Chapter 1) and we got onto rather good discussion about this.  I’m just kinda what your thoughts are.  I’m not here to start a argument, or whatever.  I’m just curious [...]

Yesterday morning I finished up John Piper’s book “Don’t Waste your Life”.  It was a great book, but a book I thought that the points could have been better defined and brought to a quicker attention rather than the drawn out process that Piper followed throughout the book.  Anyway, as I worked my way through [...]

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 [...]

Green Mt. Falls kicked my butt. It gave me a nice goose egg on my head too. Stupid tree. Here is some images from the hike:

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 [...]

Hey all,
Its been a while since I really have posted anything at all. Life has been kicking my butt in the area of work and trying to have somewhat of a social life as well, so thus the lack of blogging. Its not that I don’t have much to write about, in fact [...]

Today I came across a post by a blogger I follow who is the Director of Communications at Park Community Church in Chicago, Illinois.  The post is actually a repost from this blog.  The context of the original post is discussing some of the happenings in California over the issue of same sex marriages.  In the original post this [...]

It just may not be what you expected.  Thats all.

 
(ht:: ASBO Jesus)

So I came across this image reading Woot.com’s blog.  I had a good chuckle and thought I’d let you, the read come up with a CAPTION for this image. Click the image to see more of this new and exciting product.

I don’t know if you have ever been in a canoe, let alone capsizing one. I remember back to my younger years when I’d go to camp with my best friend Jeremy and we’d canoe, rowboat and walk around creeks for fun. One thing we thought was fun was sinking the canoe so [...]