“If you werent afraid of death, or failure, or if you weren’t afraid of rejection, if you were not afraid of humiliation, if you were not afraid of what other people thought about you, if you were not afraid of anything, what would you be doing? What would you do with your life?” – Erwin Mcmanus
This quote just screams out vulnerability and community to me. I know for myself there are times I am afraid to admit my fears or insecurities, but being able …

I just posted article #100 last night!
Post 100 pushed me off of the sometimes dangerous, sometimes freeing pinnacle of self-reflection.
I looked back over the previous 99 and remembered!  I remembered for myself and for my friends.  I remembered joyfully and reluctantly.  I remembered with a hope for the future.
The previous 99 offer death and life, sin and holiness, hope and hopelessness, confusion and clarity, transparency and guarded hearts, truth and deception…
It’s a little like life itself.
How can we be wrapped up in so many dichotomous stories.  Stories twisted and tangled …

Anxious.  Restless.  Can’t sleep.
I was sitting here tonight with a restless heart.  Don’t know why.  I feel like I need to sleep, but I just didn’t feel ready to put a lid on the journey called today.
So I’ve been sitting… thinking a little.
I downloaded Andrew Peterson’s new single (Purchase Here on iTunes)
After AP’s song finished Andy Gullahorn was next in my iTunes line-up.
These lyrics grabbed that restlessness and tackled it to the ground:
I know I just display my foolish pride
When I try to be an island to myself
You must be …

From Scott Hunter’s Facebook Page:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who actually is in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strived valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again and again because there is no effort with out error and short coming; who does actually try to do the …

I embraced the practice of transactional friendship! WIIFM – “What’s in it for me?”

In other words, I love other people simply for what they have to offer me or my organization. It’s ugly, but it’s true!

They came in to find a full meal and an embracing community of Christ followers. As I mentioned, Manju invited us to her house to do our meal and have our worship time. Well, last night a dozen and a half people enjoyed a full meal that was a mix of American food and Americanized Indian food and had a great time singing and sharing and praying…

Part of doing church means that we are supposed to be there for each other, to spur each other on, to encourage one another in words and deeds. Unfortunately, that does not…

Our faith community meets in our furniture store.

There’s some advantages and disadvantages to that, but my favorite advantage is that it is undercover.

We have a loose schedule of events and a skeleton time frame that hardly ever gets heeded, but it’s us.

Sometimes things go as scheduled and sometimes they don’t. Tonight they didn’t…

We ARE the church. We do not GO to church. Therefore, the church is wherever we find ourselves and this morning it was sitting in a booth eating biscuits at Chick-Fil-A. The beauty of this undercover church is

Tonight as I was leaving work, I hopped in my car and enthusiastically turned the ignition switch, excited to get home and tuck the kids in for the night. The motor churned slowly, but not fast enough to fire the engine before bogging down to a low chug and finally the dreaded click-click-click of a dead battery. I knew Julie wouldn’t be able to get the kids out and come help, so I sat and thought. Who could get here the most quickly and who would I disturb the least