I want to thank you all this morning, truly, deeply, and fully. You have been instrumental in a great thing and I just wanted to take the time today to let you know that it has not gone unnoticed. Caitlyn is turning out really well, you should all be very proud. She is strong and […]
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Tags : Baptism, bold, child of God, children, Data, Mark 10, NBOP, school discipline, teenagers, youth, zero tolerance
I remember the day Caitlyn was born. In fact, Caitlyn remembers the day she was born, not in her own memories but in the story of that day that we told her one time and that she then asked to have told to her again and again until she was about nine. It began with […]
Tags : Baptism, childbirth, commonal;ity, genealogy, legacy, memory, mories, remembrances, Romans 10:17, sermon, stories, story, Twitter
I’ve always thought that the best, un-fulfilled promise we might make toward the homeless was to build showers and offer laundry service to them. I know, it sounds pretentious and elitist and other words that are not flattering, but in point of fact, it isn’t just for my comfort that this suggestion rises in my […]
Tags : Baptism, camping, dirty, funky, grace, hoarding, homeless, homelessness, Hungry, Jordan River, pantry, poo-pourri, Press Democrat, promise, shopping cart, shower, stink, sweat
Theologians are a little weird sometimes. And the saddest part is that they don’t realize how weird they are and they need someone to smack them, lovingly, upside the head and remind them that theirs is not the only sufficient vantage point in the world from which one might glimpse Christ in the scriptures. The […]
With confirmation going on, with Maddie going off to Mount Cross to learn to be a camp counselor, with some of the younger people getting closer and closer to me in height, I have started to notice how long I have been here, how much of life I have seen going on before my eyes. […]
Tags : acolyte, Baptism, camp ministry, counselor, fertilizer, grace, Home, Mount Cross, nurture, pandering, soil
It is curious and a little unnerving to be talking about water at a time like this. California is on the verge of drying up and blowing away, the docks on Lake Mendocino stand far, far away from the edge of the water, less than 40% of its usual capacity being left in the lake. […]
Tags : artificial, Augustine, Baker, Baptism, Bill Gates, Butcher, Candlestick Maker, details, Drought, immersion, Jesus, Lake Mendocino, Navarro River, pretending, reconcilliation, stiff-necked
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