I am so sure! <valley girl this up> It sounds silly but truthfully, we are sure of so many things that, in the sober light of day, we have no control over and very little information about. Being sure is an asset in business; it makes you decisive; it makes you bold. Well, appearing to […]
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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 […]
We in wine country are in trouble. I don’t know how much you know about cork, but it is a marvelous substance, it is compressible and watertight and as such is the finest substance yet discovered to keep fluids contained in a glass bottle. It is sustainably harvested since you can peel the bark from […]
Tags : cork, glorified, gravensteins, harvest fair, Holy Spirit, humility, metric system, minecraft, Norwegian, passive-aggressive, plums, prunes, reserve, santa rosa plums, sonoma county, spirit, sustainability, wine, wineries
Sermons come from everywhere. They come from magazine articles and television shows and they most certainly come from the very mouth of God because some sermons just write themselves and I can barely remember the process let alone the words that I used once the sermon is done. I wish that happened more often than […]
Tags : Arndt Halvorson, balance, death, entropy, forgive, gospel, Holy Spirit, hubris, journey, life, pulpit, reborn, recipe, sabbath, sin
I do not dream. I know that sounds crazy, but it is true, for as long as I can remember I have not awoken the way that some people do with the frost of a dream covering my mind, lacy and white and ephemeral, melting away as wakefulness returns to my brain. For whatever reason, […]
Tags : adulthood, Advocate, calling, daydream, dreams, faithful, family, future, healthy, Hollywood, Holy Spirit, hopeful, Kingdom, MacGyver, mission, Robert Ludlum, strong, trinity, vocabulary
Debbie and I are blessed in oh so many ways. We have found each other, which is no mean trick to judge from the number of advertisements for the online matchmaking services. Don’t they sometimes make you wonder how anybody ever got together before without being perfectly matched on twenty nine scientifically determined characteristics? After […]
Tags : blessings, dating, Easter 5, Fresno, grace, guests, Holy Spirit, hospitality, houseguest, Justice, Liberty, love, Lydia, Macedonia, neighbors, right, salutary, surrender
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