pumped

I'm getting pretty pumped for this weekend's gathering for a whole bunch of reasons. I will now share just a few with you... 1. it's not nothing to have been gathering for a year and exploring the story that animates the world and our lives. that is something folks. When the New Testament encouraged our …

made for trash.

Yesterday Adam and I were talking about the last clean-up project we did with downtown credo. We do them once a month on Saturday mornings. Most times it's hard to convince yourself to leave the house, bed, couch, t.v. or breakfast to go pick up trash at 9a. It takes a force of will. I …

you got to pray.

you can pray with me today if you want... Lord, I'm learning that answers are not as important as questions. Not because answers aren't important, but it's just that you are so consistently on the mark with great ones. I'm learning it's more important for me to discover great questions; they set you up for …

Margaritaville.

yesterday we talked a little after our Gathering about the ten "commandments." We thought about how the ten commandments are more accurately translated the "ten words" and how they could just as rightly be understood as descriptions instead of commands. I love thinking of them like that, they fit in better with the whole story …

we fly away.

While we hiked the Canyon a couple weeks ago a friend encouraged us to begin memorizing psalm 90. I was skeptical. It sounded like a sunday school assignment for a kid in the 4th grade. but I try to submit to folks I trust when I get the opportunity. So I took him up on …

eight

psalm eight is pretty great. if feels true. do you know what I mean? sometimes poetry can feel true before you're even sure what it's saying... psalm eight is like that for me. what I read it, the first thing that strikes me is: beauty. then, humility. then, honor. then I want to read it …