Tonight after work, I met Tim Ung, my old friend from Sagebrush Highland Church, and another friend- Mike Smith, who was also part of the old kids area morning set-up crew back when the church met at Highland High- for dinner at Mannie’s on Central. It was great to see Tim for a bit...
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It’s been a challenge, but I am at the place right now where I need to speak up, and to put down. After some 3 and a half years at church, setting up every Sunday morning and tearing down every Sunday afternoon, and trying to lead a small group one night a week, I...
Read more →Today was a normal Tuesday in most aspects. I got up. I made coffee. I went to work. I had small group. It was different in two ways though. Before work, I had a medical appointment with a specialist whose office was on the west side, in a direction opposite from where I work...
Read more →Alberto is an older Hispanic gentleman I met a few months ago at our church. Gray-haired and slightly stooped, Alberto switches from large-rimmed reading glasses to giant-framed blackout sunglasses, depending on where he is in the sun or in the building. He is clearly not wealthy, but when he talks, you can hear he...
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It’s almost midnight, and I am up cooking a lasagna for a staff appreciation dinner our small group is giving for the Sagebrush Highland leaders. We just wanted to do a small thing to say thank you to them for their service and their leadership at our campus, and the dinner after church tomorrow...
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It’s been a good day, but par for the course, I am up too late, and feel I am too tired to write a sensible post. But I tend to feel like that anytime I try to write a post on here, so why is that new. I thought I would just highlight the...
Read more →It seemed to start well enough. Our church campus at Highland started two years ago. After about six months, a friend and I decided we would support the campus and start a small group. After all, our church strives to built on small group communities. Out of the gates, we had a good core...
Read more →It’s a hard but sad fact that people- at least most people- move in and out of our lives in a relatively short time. Some individuals are luckier than others in that they have better luck- and better skills- at establishing and fostering relationships so that those they have with others don’t fade so...
Read more →I think I’ve started six blog posts in the last month, and all of them with great seed ideas, but as I’ve tried to work through them, tapping ideas out onto the screen, the ideas have just wilted and died. I don’t know if this is writer’s block, or more broadly, just an alive-r’s...
Read more →I had lunch with my good friend Jenise today, and we took some time to visit about what has been going on in our lives the last week or so. At one point, she asked me about how things were going in our church small group. “Things in our small group have been pretty...
Read more →Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. ~ Psalm 146:1-2 It’s been a good week the last week, although the more I seem to try and understand life, the less I seem...
Read more →I’ve continued my slow trek through the Old Testament by striding through II Samuel over the last few weeks, and have been grateful to take a closer look at the life of David. There are moments when reading passages about him that I have breathed a sigh of relief and thought “If this guy...
Read more →It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written anything, and frankly, I know there have been things to write, but I’ve either been too busy or the topics seem to big to get into a post. Time has flown by, as well. I often get home in the evenings, and once I am there,...
Read more →Another weekend closes down. I am entering this post after finishing up a good 7 hours of being at work staring at the project that won’t build itself. Not all of this time has been spent on programming. I am still in a mental fog from sleep hunger and whatever else is stifling my...
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Today was a good Labor Day, although I continued to feel tired most of the day. The bulk of the day was spent at home. After a year of captivity, I let the cats out to scout the house. My little boy was like, “Meh.” The little girl came downstairs and cautiously checked out...
Read more →It’s Sunday evening, about 8:40, and I am tapped out. For the middle of a holiday weekend, I feel drained, and as if there is not enough time to get done what I need to get done. It was my hope to get headway made on one pressing project at work, and another one...
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