For the next week Rose and I will be in Homer, Alaska with her parents (if anyone cares to know where Homer is or anything about Homer let me know in the comments and I’ll be glad to share). It will not doubt be a great week of R & R which is much needed [...]

Something about the end of a calender year is climactic. I tend to operate more on a school year schedule ending in May/June, than the calender which obviously ends in December. But with that said, just about everyone has been posting end of the year posts. They almost always include links to their favorite post, [...]

The past few months I’ve had a lot more visitors to this blog than before. So this is me welcoming all of you and encouraging you to subscribe to this blog through a feed reader or through email. Subscribing with a Reader: There are a lot of readers out there (Bloglines, Google Reader, Yahoo, Microsoft [...]

Earlier this week Mark Driscoll wrote some reflections on his church after last weekend’s lowly attended church services. His church was one of very few who kept their doors open in the entire Northwest last weekend. I don’t know of any churches that stayed open last weekend in Portland. Mark gave a list of 3 [...]

Today I led worship for the 11am service at Sunset. Jill led the 9am and did a great job. Here was our set for the morning: Cannons (E, Wickham) You are Here (The Same Power) (B, Hillsong) The Stand (A, Hillsong) Everlasting God (A, Brown) A message by Barb on Habakkuk Jesus Paid it All [...]

Had a chance to hang out with Ric yesterday for the first time in a year. He and I have a lot in common. We’re both working at churches, we are both in seminary, we both love sports, and we’ve both sported long hair at various points in our lives. Check out his blog HERE. [...]