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-...
Read more →I don’t know if you are like me in this, but my ability to get through books comes and goes. I don’t know if it is seasonal or what, but there are periods in my life when I am primed and pumped, and I can get through a series of books with little problem,...
Read more →Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ~ Matthew 10:39 Whenever any talk bubbles up about losing one’s life for someone else, most everyone will agree that the person who has done this is the noblest of beings. We read stories in the...
Read more →At age 43, I often think I should be farther along in life than I am. In love. In a profession. In handling the daily grind. I’ve been on this planet for four decades, and have seen more minutes of living than a number of people I have liked or appreciated: Chris Farley was...
Read more →I want to tell you why this is the song of the day. About two years ago, I started dancing to quell my long streak of staying home every weekend night. I gave a few ballroom classes a try. Uhh- no. A friend then directed me to try some classes at the Albuquerque Dance...
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