I suppose that in may ways I really am a geek. Back in my undergraduate days, I did own multiple pairs of brightly colored, checkered pants. Unfortunately, I can’t claim that on my geek resume because everyone owned those back in the early 70′s. I even had several pairs of elevator shoes that had color [...]
I follow a twitterer (and blog writer) by the name of David Sitton. I love what he does in life and suppose I feel a sense of camaraderie that is bred from some sort of similarity in the way our lives have been orchestrated. He recently had an interesting article entitled The Missionary Call: How [...]
The whole Terry Jones burning the Koran thing is frustrating. The response to what he did by Muslims in Afghanistan proves to many that he is right; the response of those outside the church to him proves to them that all Christians are that way. Burning the Koran is not the way of Jesus; that [...]
What a day we had at The Message Church yesterday! It’s not every day that you are privileged to be able to ordain someone as a pastor, even more so when that person is one of your best friends. With the help of his father, pastor Bill Tyndall, I was blessed to be able to [...]
I’m excited about Sunday. I’m typically always excited about Sunday. Ever since I’ve gotten my “preach” back on, Sundays have become a day that I look forward to with anticipation. I find it so interesting that what used to be laborious work in the past has become a point of divine encounter in the present. [...]
Today is travel day… again. After the morning class, we’ll be making a dash across Curitiba to get to the airport. Bittersweet. I’m so excited about getting back and beginning to apply what I’ve learned. The future burns brighter than ever after two weeks in Brazil. Being here always cleans out my spiritual ears in [...]
My head hurts. I don’t think I’ve ever had to process as much as I have over the past week and a half; I don’t think I’ve ever been exposed to what I have been exposed to… I know I haven’t. I don’t even have doubts about what I’m supposed to do with it all. [...]
Last night I had the privilege of ordaining a missionary and pastor who has given almost twenty years of his life in service to the Kingdom. Why would I “ordain” someone who is already a pastor and missionary? This Brazilian pastor found himself in a position of not having a spiritual covering. Such a covering [...]
One of the characteristics of the training I’m participating in here in Brazil is it’s communal living environment. We are forced to live in a community, sharing resources and space. The experience is designed to help us be better counselors, to be more attuned to the needs, and quirks, of others, especially strangers we come [...]
At The Message Church we have a gathering every Friday night that we call “Time Before Abba.” It typically is a time of soaking in His presence. Recently, however, that’s been changing. Seems the natives are getting restless, especially after our “Kingdom Come” event two weekends ago. We went from gently praying to rambunctiously ordering [...]
