“God wants you to have sex.” This is what I shall share with my Youth Group tonight, and I’m waiting to hear the pin drop when I say it. Ok, maybe it’s not fair to drop such a grenade on my Youth Group kids, but I kind of want to catch them off [...]
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We’re Bringing Sexy Back
Posted in Church, Europe, Faith, Germany, Life, Nurnberg on October 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Big Day
Posted in Basketball, Church, Europe, Faith, Nurnberg on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The News Release guys get in to Lauf today. I will be preaching at the OpenAir church service tomorrow, and then our week-long camp kicks off on Monday morning. We’ve had meetings for camp since March, so it is an exciting to begin to see a lot of work come to fruition. Please pray for [...]
My Thursday (after Ash Wednesday) Prayer
Posted in Church, Faith, Life, Poetry, Rebirth on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Lord Father,
May I have eyes to see your work, may I have courage to join it.
May I have ears to hear your voice, and a mouth to repeat what I hear.
May I have hands to embrace your presence, and fingers to hold those in need.
May I have a nose to smell sweet things, and [...]
The Dolphin Effect: Home and Back Again
Posted in Church, Faith, Globalism, Life, Travel on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hans did most of the talking, and at 68 years old, I was surprised that he chose to talk to me rather than trying to sleep during the 8-hour transatlantic flight from Washington-Dulles to Zurich. Although he is a retired pharmaceutical chemist, his interests encompass wine, travel, Nietzsche, linguistics, and family and so on. As [...]
Coming to Blossom
Posted in Church, Europe, Faith, Friends, Germany, Life, Nurnberg, Travel on April 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The bellowing of various church and cathedral bells around Lauf declared six o’clock, causing us to pick up our pace as we walked home yesterday evening from the train station. We had just been to Nürnberg for a couple of hours; me to teach my only class of the day (godsend), and Nick to hunt [...]
Israelite Tendencies: A Failed Recipe for Manna
Posted in Church, Faith, Life, Nurnberg on March 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring [...]
Irreducible #s
Posted in Church, Europe, Faith, Germany, Globalism, Travel on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life is so good, so intricate, so delicate, and so full. How is one to ever capture any of this in the curves, slants, and lines of a word?
Tomorrow is a new day. And maybe then I will be older and wiser…a better person and a better writer. But today, after having spent an amazing [...]
I’m With You, Mr. Bonhoeffer
Posted in Church, Faith, Germany on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Christians live like other men: they get married, they mourn and rejoice, they buy their requirements and use the world for the purpose of day-to-day existence. But they have everything through Christ alone, in him and for his sake. Thus they are not bound by it. They have everything as though they had it not. [...]
Drinking from the Water of My own Reflection
Posted in Church, Faith, tagged Faith, Grace, Les Miserables, Redemption on September 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
What am I searching for as I relentlessly stare into my silvery bedroom mirror? Why have I been spending long minutes absorbed in my own all too familiar gaze? I hope to myself that I am not being narcissistic; I even think appearance actually has little to do with it. In fact, I am trying [...]
We Must Cultivate Our Garden
Posted in Basketball, Church, Europe, Faith, Globalism, Travel on September 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Finally awoken by the slanting sun beckoning in a new day, I began yesterday morning as I have been starting every morning…with a cup of coffee and the newspaper, (well, okay, an internet news site, but it is almost the same). Also becoming a part of the daily routine was my chat with Patrick in [...]
