It’s been raining a lot recently! One of our local news stations reported that Louisville hit a new daily, monthly, and annual rain record this week. That’s a lot of rain! Now, I’m okay with a good rain. There’s something somewhat cathartic in a soaking downpour. However, there’s also something[…]
Grinch-mas
I love Christmas time. I didn’t always love it. As a pastor, the Advent season turns ones schedule into a chaotic blur of movements and scheduling conflicts. It’s always been a difficult time in terms of balancing the busyness of the season with what it’s really supposed to be about.[…]
Happy Thanksgiving 2011
I received a great gift last evening. I went down to our sister church, Fourth Avenue United Methodist, to serve at our annual joint Thanksgiving Celebration. Both churches bring members and we joined by the men and women of the Healing Place. The Healing Place is an outreach ministry here[…]
What Keeps Me Up…
With a title like “what keeps me up”, you might expect that I’m talking about my insomnia and subsequent teratment (again). That is not the point of this post. Sure, the thoughts that I’m talking about are no doubt a part of the storm that constantly rumbles in my head[…]
What I’m learning from Insomnia
Anyone who has spent any real time with me knows that I have had a long relationship with insomnia. I’ve always been a light sleeper and I can remember waking up to noises even back in middle school. In College this waking up became a bigger issue and I started[…]
Living Theology
I’m a music kinda guy. I guess it’s due to growing up in a very musical church and family. Early on I was introduced to all kinds of different styles and genres of music. Add to that singing in choirs, ensembles and playing in the band and what you have[…]
The Push
I had a conversation this past week with some other followers of Jesus and we were sharing about a concern we had about some folks both in and out of our church. Now, I’ve been in conversations like these before, as I’m sure most of us have been, and sadly[…]
Dwelling Place
The Scripture passage I read this morning is not just a great passage, but a pretty great song too. Sadly, I’m not 100% on the reference, but I think it’s from Psalm 84 (you’ll have to excuse me, this post is being intermittently typed and uploaded from Tampa International Airport). […]
iLife: a follower who leads
Yesterday was a game changer. I was leaving church last evening and received a text on my iPhone that said Steve Jobs, the former CEO and chief innovator of the Apple Family, had passed away after fighting multiple forms of cancer the last several years. Thirty minutes prior I had[…]
Clean Space
I walked in my office today and breathed a really deep sigh. I grew up in Florida and I have first hand experience of what a place looks like after a hurricane has gone through. My office kinda looked like a hurricane just ransacked the entire space. Papers stacked up,[…]