It’s a common saying after winning or losing a sports game of some kind: “It’s just a game.” And the fact of the matter is that the people who say that (I know I have) are right. Sports are after-all, just a game. But even as I say it, I begin to have thoughts of [...]

In today’s world of podcasts and blogs and church websites, we have the opportunity to sit under the teaching of just about any pastor we choose despite most of us calling another church our home. There’s good and bad to this I won’t get into right now. I am curious though… If you could sit [...]

Here in Portland we have pretty limited expectations for what “Spring” actually is. It was sunny earlier in the week for a few hours and the temperature was a whopping 55* and I started hearing people talk about spring. Pretty funny. This year I might be doing as poorly as I’ve ever done with my [...]

As someone firmly entrenched in this world of social media, I constantly battle over the need or desire to share. Sharing of my life, my news, my opinion. (Trust me, the irony of writing a blog post sharing my opinion about opinion sharing is not lost on me) Often times I do feel an urge [...]

I just finished reading Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch. It was a book I really enjoyed. Andy comes at the conversation of how Christians should interact with culture from a more Biblical, artistic, and intellectual perspective than anything I’ve read before. Most books on this topic tend to use statistics and [...]

Yesterday Rose graduated after several years of studying at her massage school. Very proud of my wife! I’m starting to get excited to go to the Q Conference in Portland next month. I’m attending via a live video feed at a site near the actual conference with other seminary students. The list of speakers far [...]