The day I graduated from McNary High School (in Keizer, OR) it was 96. The day my sister graduated from high school it rained half the day and was 56. That sums up Oregon weather. Love or hate it, at least it is never the same. The biggest news story of the past week outside…
Willow Creek Arts Conference
I found late on Tuesday night that I am able to go to the Willow Creek Arts Conference. I’ll be flying standby with Jay thanks to a wonderful donation by Aaron Soule. It is only because of that gift that we are able to go. Jay and I will be meeting up with another co-worker…
A Life Turned Around
As I posted about last week, I hung out with Arnie for an afternoon. Arnie isn’t totally sure that he believes in Jesus. He said his heart wants to, but his head still has questions. Questions that no person can just give answers to, he told me. The world likes Arnie because he is a…
Who Would Have Thought?
If you told somebody 6 months ago that the race for becoming the next President would be against John McCain and Barack Obama, they would have thought you were crazy. Well, it happened. So how did we get here? Why is it these 2 men? What do you think? My thoughts? I think both of…
How to Look Like a Worship Leader
I ran across a post today by Prodigal Jon @Stuff Christians Like thanks to Joc. It was a post giving a guide to knowing how metrosexual your worship leader. I thought I’d take a look to see how I score on his ratings system of how metro sexual I am as a worship leader. I…
Sunday 6.1.08.
I haven’t done a “worship confessional” in a long, long time so I figure I’m due. This morning was great. My buddy from high school, Matt, finally came to church, my grandparents from Nebraska and my 2 youngest siblings came as well. It was weird to look out into the crowd and see people I…