Wow! My wife and I just had one of those rare conversations about life and faith with our daughter. God has blessed us with a remarkably sensitive and spiritually insightful daughter. Faith is developing. She is drawing very close to making the decision to commit her life to Christ. We [...]
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a memorable conversation
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gratitude
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
been thinking about how richly blessed I am…great wife, great kids, great friends, like our house, neighborhood, love our work/ministry…with all that is wrong in the world…I am truly grateful for how blessed I am…It is good sometime to dwell on what is right, don’t you think? (Does this sound just too sappy? I don’t [...]
Contemplation Retreat – Day 5 – cont.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged contemplation, retreat, spiritual direction, spiritual formation, spirituality on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…two hours ago we entered into our 36 hr Silent Sabbath in hopes of giving God the interior space to speak to us deeply without crowding it out with incessant talking.
Contemplative Retreat – Day 5
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are staying in a convent that has had one wing converted into a retreat center. We are eating in their caffeteria. I think I understand one of the many ways the nuns are expected to suffer. They must go without seasoning on their food.
Contemplative Retreat – Day 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged contemplation, spiritual direction, spiritual formation, spirituality on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There seems to be a philosophical orientation here at Shalem that assumes that infants in their purity are naturally closer to God than adults after all of the acculturation, language acquition and moral categories that develop as one grows older. This has come out in a couple of ways.
Spiritual Direction Residency
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged contemplation, journey, spiritual on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the 3rd day of our retreat. This morning Rose Mary Doughtery guided us through thoughts concerning the intersection between Scripture and Prayer. What a remarkably gentle and thoughtful person, not to mention her subtle sense of humor. It was a quiet morning of listening; first to Rose Mary and then [...]
Facebook Birthday
Posted in Observations, Uncategorized on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My birthday was three days ago. 43. It wasn’t a remarkable day, but it was nice to be with my family. Even my mom was visiting. I grilled out & we watched the Olympics. The only thing noteable about my birthday was the number of birthday wishes I got through Facebook. I must have gotten [...]
The 2 Faces of the Gospel
Posted in Church Planting, Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week at the National New Church Conference the Reverand Tim Keller spoke. He is the senior minister for Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, NYC. In his address he highlighted a wonderful point from the book of Galatians.
In chapter one of Galatians the apostle Paul greets his readers with his familiar, “grace and peace to [...]
