Every year, one topic comes up in the ministry I work in: changes and the future. Granted, they’re teenagers so many of them don’t have much Past to work with yet. But, they spend a huge amount of time worrying about and planning out their futures during their junior and senior years of high school. There is no explaining [...]
Archive for the ‘religion’ Category
5 Jan
The Parable at Kruger
This video has become popular, so you may have seen it before. On the other hand, if you haven’t, it can be tough to watch. It’s better without the sound on because the narraration interrupts the flow of the video. If you start it watching it, make sure you watch through to at least seven minutes-don’t quit in the [...]
9 Dec
Would Santa deliver presents to Baby Jesus?
My weekly blog alarm is going off with increasing frequency, so I better write something to stop it for another week or two… I love Christmas. And, even though I work for a church and spend a lot of time with church people, the Christmas I really love is the Santa Claus, Grinch, gift-giving, silly [...]
18 Nov
Brownie Brainwashing- the Girls Scout kind, not the chocolate kind
My daughter is nine years old. She the youngest of our tribe, and the only girl. So, we’re doing a few things for the first time although it’s our fourth child. This year she joined Girl Scouts. The boys didn’t like Boy Scouts. They said it was too much like school. But she seems to [...]
5 Oct
A one day vacation in Greece
Today was one of the most interesting, refreshing, informative days I can remember. I had the opportunity to go to a Greek festival at a Greek Orthodox Church. I don’t know the technicalities-maybe it’s called Eastern Orthodox? The heritage of the attendees was Greek and so they were having a huge church festival and sort [...]
18 Aug
God’s dreams
Does God dream? Church folks talk about His plans for them, but I can’t remember anyone talking about His dreams. Not for their lives, nor for the world. In fact, I can’t remember anyone ever saying “God dreamed….” or “in God’s dreams”. Why is that? Presumably, if we dream and we’re made in God’s image, [...]
30 Jun
When is a Frog not a Frog?
The Space trilogy by C.S. Lewis. I’ve read them before; a long time ago and had forgotten how much I like them. I’m through Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. I really love Perelandra, but I was talking to a friend who said he prefers Out of the Silent Planet by a longshot over [...]
18 Jun
a story in a story in a story
My 11 year old son likes to imagine. Sometimes he writes down what he imagines, and sometimes he draws it and other times he just thinks up the idea. He came up with the start of a story. It was a great idea that I haven’t been able to forget. I got involved in adding to it, tacking on details [...]
29 May
things that make you go “hmmm”
“Of note in Barna’s research is that a church’s size and theology seems to be related to its use of technology. Simply put, smaller churches tend to use less tech than larger churches, and theologically liberal churches tend to use less tech than the more theologically conservative. Interesting.” from Ed Setzer.com yeah, interesting.
6 May
Forward motion is overrated
This weekend I was supposed to be retreating-going off to listen to God tell me which way to take the story project. It would be a nice time of reflection, meditation and receiving. I was going to go to the shore, spend a few days away and have God tell me what to do and move merrily on afterward. [...]
