As a musician and worship pastor I enjoy listening to music. Some of the best times of connection I’ve had with God are sitting at the computer with music on. The creativity needed in great music is inspirational, whether it be done by “secular” or “Christian” artists (as you can tell I don’t really think [...]

Last week I took a course on preaching narrative literature. One of the big areas we focused on was the power of story. The Bible has one overarching story with many great stories within it. It is a beautiful piece and it is a work of art by God that has changed the world. To [...]

I was at an event for The Mentoring Project last night with a lot of out of town people. It’s always fun when people come to Portland for the first time. For whatever reason Portland has a mystique to it for people who don’t live here. Rose and her team in Honduras come home late [...]

Last week I saw a blog post being linked to all over the place. It was a post written by Phil Cooke encouraging dads to “disconnect to reconnect.” It was encouraging to see how many dads saw the value of giving the gift of their presence to their children. Here’s some of what Cooke said: [...]

I don’t go to the movie theater often, but when LivingSocial had a deal through Fandango of 2 tickets for $9 I knew exactly what movie I’d be using the deal to see. I blogged about a month ago on the movie The Tree of Life (watch the trailer here too) and the opportunity it [...]

It’s a little early to get too excited, but the Twins have a chance to make one of the more improbable comebacks in regular season MLB history. They’ve gone from being one of the worst teams I’ve ever seen play, to one of the best…in about 2 weeks. Rose left this morning for Honduras with [...]