Looking for a better way of being together than “Christmas Vacation”?  read on: “Dwelling” is a great word. It can mean the space in...

Thee gospel clearly speaks to God’s intention for the world to be a place characterized by political and economic peace and freedom, and...

Today I had the morning for sermon prep, and it needed to be concentrated because I’m heading down to California to catch up with my mom....

II Corinthians, but it’s a phrase ripe with meaning.  It’s a phrase which, along with a passage from Jeremiah, God has used over and over...

7:00 AM.  We leave the Denny’s parking lot just as the sky behind the Cascades to the east is brightening, as we drive together up a road...

how the "mighty" have fallen I came home yesterday in the late afternoon and wondered, as I climbed the steps to my upstairs office, how...

found here.  It’s called the Eighth Letter and the link will explain why.  Here’s my offering to the project… To the North American...

silence and stars - God's elixir If there’s a time for everything, then there’s a time for grenades of darkness to pummel our souls,...

deadliest day, in the deadliest year, of Everest mountaineering history.  One of the heroic stories of that day was the actions of Ed...

one of the actors on “The Middle” because his dad and I were in architecture school together.  We were all together at a conference where...

Maybe you’ve been to Yellowstone and seen Old Faithful?  That’s the one that gushes on schedule, the heat of the earth bursting out every...

I grew up in Central California, closer to mountains than water.  When I attended college on the coast, those pesky architecture labs and...

raising kids and loving God...together I just finished a week of ministry at Forest Home, a marvelous ministry in Southern California...

like kids in a candy shop Tuesday, 3:30 PM, Forest Falls, California, by the side of the swimming pool. I’m spending an hour lazing in...

This coming Sunday, as we begin a new series at my church, I’ll be sharing about the tension between being sojourners and settling down....

I pick up the other book I’m reading called “Practicing the Presence of God” by a 17th century French monk named “Brother Lawrence”.  ...

To make things more exciting, we had our over-confident participants do the ropes course blindfolded.  They’d climb the rope ladder and...

It’s terrible irony that the very thing they fear, ends up happening, precisely because they’re afraid of it happening.  “Fear” it turns...

I turn on the radio and start fiddling with the AM little realizing what’s about to happen.  “Good afternoon!” says the familiar voice....

I recently read a survey that indicated 90% of American men self identify as being “above average fitness” compared to their peers.  When...