I really should go to sleep, but I feel compelled to share a great story that Matt had told us at lunch about something that happened to him a short time ago. I’m bound to get some details wrong… so Matt, if you read this feel free to correct it.
He’d received a phone call while [...]
Just back from an incredibly pleasant lunch with one brother from Orlando, FL (Matt) and a couple from Pasadena, CA (Dottie and Fred) where we reacted to an incredible message given during the first plenary session by Andy Crouch. It was such an enjoyable time where we each spoke and clarified what God was showing [...]
My wife and I are sitting here waiting for the Symposium to start and we’ve already met our neighbor (and fellow church planter). It’s an interesting experience going to a symposium/conference in your own home town. You’re off work, and have the whole day booked with sessions and workshops, but you know you’re going back [...]
I’m exhausted. Mainly because I’ve been sick for three weeks and am just now recovering and this has been a full day… but exhausted nonetheless. That said, I feel this great sense of burgeoning revelation as I contemplate and meditate on all that I’ve encountered today on this first day of the symposium. Andy Crouch [...]
First day back at work after being out sick on Thursday and Friday and I’m bone-tired. After the convention on Saturday, I slept for four hours and then due to all that sleep was up until 2:30am. Woke up Sunday a bit later than I wanted and forced myself to remain awake so that I [...]
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
O what a foretaste of glory divine
Heir of salvation, purchased of God
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my savior all the day long
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my savior all the day long
Every Easter Sunday, I am appropriately reminded [...]
Hopefully, you see in these writings a man who is staying The Course and pursuing The Path amidst the pitfalls and selfish ways of being a son of Adam. I pray earnestly that my writing would encourage some of you by showing you that this journey - though arduous and sometimes tragic - is a journey of great satisfaction. A satisfaction greater than our greatest imaginings. The trials and refining fire of tribulation are to be recognized as a small shadow of the suffering of our Savior so that we can rejoice, as Peter and the disciples did, to be counted worthy to suffer for the sake of the Name.