• About Bruce

    A web programmer by day, I somehow still spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, God, and the significance of grace and love in daily events. I am old school in the sense that I believe in the reality of sin, and in the need of each human heart for deliverance to the Divine. I am one of those who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that you can find most answers to life's pressing issues in Him and His Word, the Bible. I ain't perfect, and a lot of the time I ain't good, but by God's grace and kindness, I am forgiven and free.

    Courage, the Gateway to Love

    by  • December 6, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Tonight I was thinking about love, and how if you want to be a good lover at all, you have to have courage.  You have to have courage, because inevitably, in any relationship you have where you care about someone, something is going to happen where either you or the other falls and fails,...

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    An Author, an Email, and an Altar

    by  • December 5, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    My good friend Wendy told me  two month ago about a book I needed to read. It was Don Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.”  She thought I could use it.  And she also told me when she read it, it made her think about me.  “It’s you”, she said.  I thought,...

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    7 Minutes: Wanting and Waiting

    by  • December 1, 2011 • Seven Minutes with God • 0 Comments

    “Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.” Acts 7:25 Yesterday, while reading in Acts 7 about Stephen speaking to the Sanhedrin, I was impressed with Stephen’s summary about Moses’ life, and specifically with the reminder that if we truly live seeking...

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    I • Beginnings

    by  • November 30, 2011 • A Short History of Love • 0 Comments

    When I was in elementary school, I was pretty anonymous, and quiet. For at least the first year of it, I was considered developmentally challenged- well, at least by my parents, until they realized I wasn’t simply stupid, but just blind. I don’t remember a whole lot from elementary school specifically. I showed up....

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    SOTD: “Emily” by Dave Koz

    by  • November 29, 2011 • SOTD • 0 Comments

    In honor of my niece. I am now at the point with this song that I can recognize it when I hear it, and it makes me think of her. Both it and she are beautiful.

    Handling Losses

    by  • November 24, 2011 • The Meaning of Manhood • 0 Comments

    “Every man, at some point in his life, is going to lose a battle.  He’s gonna fight and he’s gonna lose.  But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.” ~ Coach Eric Taylor, Dillon Panthers A caveat to this is that every man,...

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    Favorites | Some Old Books

    by  • November 23, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    The Cost of Discipleship

    The fruit of mining theological library book sales and used book stores in San Fran when I was in seminary, I have a few books on my shelves that are extra special to me.  There is something about these compact, hardbound volumes from the 50’s and 60’s that I love.  To me, they are...

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    Rediscovering Shame

    by  • November 22, 2011 • GraceThoughts, LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    For much of my adult life, I have wrestled with the power of shame, and its significance in the making and breaking of the self, and of relationships.  I have struggled with its subversive destructiveness all of my life, and as a result thought as a younger man I would take some time one...

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    Losing A Leader

    by  • November 18, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    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...

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