Run, Lurch, Run!
by Bruce • November 21, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments
Or, why I may be banned from public running events. Thanks to my dad and my brother for wanting to get this official photo for me to commemorate the Chicago run.
Read more →Or, why I may be banned from public running events. Thanks to my dad and my brother for wanting to get this official photo for me to commemorate the Chicago run.
Read more →I don’t fully know why it happened, but it did. If you go to my church’s staff page on its website, the badge featuring the picture and the name of the pastor of my campus is gone. I had heard word last night that he had left the church- resigned- and behold, no trace...
Read more →It’s taken some time, but I’ve finally hopped on the Twitter bandwagon. I have loaded up on feeds primarily from financial bloggers, college basketball writers, business and inspirational authors, and theological and church planting people. Hoorah. I am also really striving in my personal life to tighten up my financial management. I...
Read more →It’s about 12:40 on Tuesday. I am surprised the morning has gone so quickly. I struggle to feel like I am getting much accomplished today. I ate lunch around 11:30. I feel anxious today. I cannot seem to find continuity day by day, where I wake up and pick up in my goals and...
Read more →I have never considered myself a very competent reader. I don’t have a memory for ideas and details like my brother, who can recall peculiar lines from movies verbatim after one sitting, and facts from articles and books that are relevant to life, for which I have no filing system in my brain. I...
Read more →It was a busy weekend this weekend- which was good. I was able to have both my head and my heart challenged over the last 48 hours. On Friday night, I attended an apologetics seminar held at Calvary Chapel Albuquerque, where I and my buddy Chris sat through two speaker sessions. The first was...
Read more →See 11/1/11. It’s in heavy rotation.
Read more →We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way… ~ Isaiah 53:6 Joe Carter, in his article “Thoughts on the Penn State Scandal” at First Things, collects words from several other writers who have tried to make sense of the moral failures that have brought Paterno’s house...
Read more →“Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.” ~ I Cor. 16:13-14 Inevitably, I begin most mornings by waking up, and some care or concern floods my mind. I don’t have an overly complicated life, so my concerns are usually basic- they are...
Read more →Yes, You are.
Great song. Particularly for a Night Club Two-Step
I’ve been struggling a bit lately with the loss of a friendship, which has been occurring largely because I have tried to keep a connection open with another person, and they have opted to just ignore my efforts by, well, ignoring my efforts. Emails, texts? To answer any of those sent from me has...
Read more →This last spring, the church I had been attending (Sagebrush Riverside, a.k.a. “the Mothership”) announced that it was going to fire up a multi-site location in the Nob Hill area of Albuquerque. This campus would become Sagebrush Highland, would meet at the Performing Arts Center of Highland High School, and it would be shepherded...
Read more →I’ve prayed this a time or two this summer.
“As Eugene Peterson said, ‘We live in narrative, we live in story. Existence has a story shape to it. We have a beginning and an end, we have a plot, we have characters.’ Story is the language of the heart. …So if we’re going to find the answer to the riddle of the earth-...
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