Courtney Liddle in The New Yorker video

Love seeing friends (and church members) being the church. When people pursue their interests, using their gift and talent in a way that blesses others and glorifies God, it’s the “sweet spot.” Watch this video from The New Yorker about…

The Myth of Proximity

In Christian circles, you often hear the expression of “doing life together.” In the past few years, German pastor and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book Life Together has become an oft-quoted resource as well. Doing life together is the idea of…

Some blogs to follow

If you’re stopping by more frequently now and are enjoying this thing called blogging, I’m just going to say “I told you so.” Let me offer you a few more enjoyable blogs to follow by people that I know: For…

iPhone prank

This may be one of my new favorite pranks. I was setting up Carolyn’s shortcuts on her iPhone. You know, the option that allows you to type in a short code, and the iPhone will fill in a phrase for…

Wes likes repentance

Wednesdays are full days of meetings for me and our staff. It wasn’t so full for one of our interns named Wes this week. Our intern meeting with he and Maggie at 9:00 a.m. was, well, Wes-less. We texted to…

Bible Reading, Day 214

I’m reading the Reading God’s Story: One-Year Chronological Bible reading plan at at YouVersion. Check it out here. Today’s reading was Nahum 1-3. “Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows..” Thought: Purposeful annual repetition of religious events serves to…

Learning from gifts

Yesterday I received an amazing gift from Viktor. I’m asking folks around the office to call me “Captain Jeff” now. He collaborated with Carolyn to put my mug shot on a Star Trek figurine. The rest of the day was…

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