Category Spiritual Markers

I think that I may have a compulsive personality. I’m like a pitbull on hobbies, issues, and interests. Once I get my teeth sunk it, I don’t let go very easily. I’ve learned over the years that not everyone is…

As I headed home today from speaking in Hot Springs, I gazed over the dusty hood of our Sequoia to the unfolding road beyond. Asphalt changed to concrete and back to asphalt from county to county. 95 degrees outside, a…

Stewardship keeps coming up in conversations around me. It may be one of the most exciting things I get to talk about – really. Let me explain why. Back in 1992, I married my best friend, Carolyn Brooks. She was…

Justin over at radicalcongruency.com is forming a reading group. Stop by and see if it interests you. I signed up and am intrigued by how this will work out.

Doug Pollock wrote an article over at Christianity Today a while back that is compelling as it relates to Christians sharing their faith in Christ with people who have not affirmed Christianity either as a faith or a religion. It…

Proverbs 27.17 says, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling about Andy White. Unfortunately, neither of us are getting rich from our constant outlinks to each other’s blogs. You’ve got to stop…

This post will be the featured post for a while as we continue to raise money for the trip. Newer posts will be posted underneath it. Update (7/4/06): We all weighed in last night. I weighed 186. Two and a…

In our small community of 10,000, there were two deaths over the weekend. One was Jordan Newman, a 24 year-old guy who died in a motocycle accident, after having just gotten the cycle the same day. The other was Martha…