Our son, Mason was born three years ago, appropriately, on Mischief Night. This kid has been in our house for 2 years and 2 months after we brought him home from his birth country of Guatemala. He’s been such a blessing to our lives in ways that we can’t really even comprehend. We’re so blessed to have him and his love for music in our family…
Archive for October, 2009
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October 31, 2009
Happy Birthday Mason
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October 22, 2009
About One Day’s Wages
As I mentioned yesterday, on Saturday we are donating all the proceeds from our Seminar with Darrell Guder and Andy Crouch to two fantastic organizations that are committed to taking care of the poor. One of those organizations is One Day’s Wages. Below is a short video from the founder, and a friend of mine, Eugene Cho. Take a look at it and also check out their website. The Movement of One Day’s Wages from One Day's Wages on Vimeo.
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October 20, 2009
Supporting One Day’s Wages and HELP
I’m excited about the upcoming Scripture and Culture Seminar with Darrell Guder and Andy Crouch at The Well in Suburban Philadelphia. This event is put on by my church, The Well and my friend JR Brigg’s church, The Renew Community. It should be a great event. If you are coming, directions can be found here. We’ll also be trying to do a video cast as well so check the Ecclesia Twitter stream for more info. But, we’re more excited about all the proceeds from the event going to two organizations that are working hard to care for the poor. One Days Wages and HELP (Help End Local Poverty). You can find more information about these organizations on their websites. Oh, and if you are attending please register here.
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October 20, 2009
What Story Are You Living? Reflections on Don Miller’s Book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years”
Like many others, I read Donald Miller’s book, “Blue Like Jazz” in about three sittings. That’s not only cause it’s an easy read, but mostly because he’s a great story teller. I enjoyed Don’s first book a lot (I can call him Don, after all, like everyone else who reads his book, I feel like I know him). But, I’ll admit I mostly enjoyed Blue Like Jazz, it wasn’t too life changing or transforming for me. But in A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, he really struck a chord with me. In fact, I was hooked on the first page where he wrote, If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for a few years to get it,...Read More →
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October 15, 2009
Advice on Working with Web Designers
Most of my readers will know that I support my work as a pastor with two other jobs. I work at Starbucks part-time for the benefits for my family and then I spend about 20 hours a week building websites. I really love my work as a web designer, its a nice avenue for me to be creative. Over the years, I’ve worked with about 50 clients and most of them have been great. But every once and a while I get the stereotypical client who just doesn’t have a clue about how to treat and respect a webdesigner. It’s usually not because they are bad people, but more because they are just ignorant of what goes into building a site. In fact, its often...Read More →
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October 14, 2009
Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion…
Trying to decide what I think of this interview, some provocative thoughts. For example, “The problem is that evangelical/fundamentalist faith revolves around two directives: Be successful and evangelize. That leads to bad choices.” Probably a lot of good stuff that is true to a point but might be an over-reaction on some level. But, this section really caught my eye: I can’t prove this, but I think that any person who remains a “professional Christian” in the evangelical/fundamentalist world for a lifetime, especially any pastor, risks becoming an atheist and/or a liar. Such individuals put on an act of certainty. Sooner or later they become flakes faking it, or quit. Worse yet, some just stop asking questions. The very fact that a preacher can fool...Read More →
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October 9, 2009
This is Salvation.
I am just getting into the book Sin and Salvation from Lesslie Newbigin. It’s not one of his more famous books but I recently heard it described as the most important book that he’s written. He actually wrote in response to a need when he was a missionary in India. He wrote it for “village teachers of elementary grade who – although without training – have to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for the pastoral care of several thousand village congregations in the Tamil country.” Upon hearing that, I decided I needed to read it. Also, it’s an old book, written in 1956. (The copy i am reading looks about that old). So you know its good (be sure to read that last sentence...Read More →
