Year 2009

Is desiring blessing selfish?

Psalm 67.1-2 says, “May God be gracious to us and bless us and make His face to shine upon us, that Your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.” Is the writer asking for blessing…

StrengthsFinder Results

Sometime ago, I read Mark Buchanan’s book Now, Discover Your Strengths and took the StrengthsFinder inventory. I have discovered that it really helps to communicate with others in leadership arenas when you speak the same inventory “language.” I’m posting my…

Review: The Forgotten Ways

The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Alan Hirsch Alan Hirsch has done it again. He made my head hurt… and my heart. In The Forgotten Ways Hirsch uses a lot of trendy church terminology like missional, DNA, emerging,…

The clothing of creation

I read this week in Psalm 65 about the designer line that God has unveiled on the runway of the earth: You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. The pastures of the wilderness overflow,…

Ode to Monticello

This particular post has been percolating in my head for a long time. I kept waiting for inspirations of majestic verbiage in order to craft an appropriate entry. I wanted people to read this sublime creation and weep in amazement.…