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Communication – a messy art

I have been thinking a lot about how communication is messy. There is: What is actually said. What is heard. and What is meant. And rarely do these three play well together. I see this all the time with clients and friends, especially via email. They will often say (or write) something that sounds condescending, then [...]

Knowing in part

For those of you still subscribed to my RSS feed, nice to see you again, enjoy the ride… So I have been thinking more and more about the community of believers, the church. It is more than an organization, more than a group, more than a community, it is the Bride of Christ (and the [...]

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Missing a City

This morning I was reading about how King Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem and I found myself really missing that city. The history alone makes it noteworthy, but I miss it in a way that is deeper than that. It is the city of my spiritual heritage, the city that my [...]

Prioritizing

I have been visited my other mother at the Hospice today. Staring death in the face has gotten me thinking about how easy it is to lose priorities and the constant need to fight to keep the right priorities. It seems odd to me that we often lose site of what is most important considering [...]

Well Hello

Hello readers, I haven’t blogged in months, not totally sure why. But, I did want to send out a quick update that I am still alive. That this week we our third child was born, and that one of these days I will dive back into the blogsphere. Thanks for hanging in there, let’s have [...]

Christians and the Law

Its funny. Christians that really don’t understand Old Testament Judaism always slam on the law. But, the core of the Jewish faith is the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” The Jews very foundation was love [...]

Pastors will fail you

Pastor’s will fail you, I should know, I’ve been one. This is not to say that pastor’s are bad, they aren’t, but they are people, and people fail. I think too often we put pastor’s on an unhealthy pedestal and then when it turns out that they have the same flaws like everyone else and [...]

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The problem with American Christianity.

Last week I posted an update on Twitter and facebook that read “Confession: at the end of the day I am often more interested in entertainment than in spiritual development. A sad fact that must change.” A good friend pointed out that this is the problem with American Christianity and after mulling it over for [...]