“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables I will confess that sometimes sleep is a luxury which I cant afford.  The glowing 4:00 a.m. on my phone knows all of my secrets.  And while rare, last night was one such occurrence. I sat in the back yard in the cool night […]

Sitting alone on the porch of a friends cabin in Wisconsin staring out at 106 degrees due east (thanks iPad compass app) over Lake Michigan.  Imagining the shoreline of Michigan 118 miles away (thanks Google).  Imagining the volume.  The expanse.  Watching one wave hit the shore and imagining the potential of trillions more in the […]

So Im pretty confident that no one has made this connection…but tonight on the porch I was listening to Taylor Swift’s song “Back to December” and I was reminded that last week was Pentecost Ascension Sunday.  Stick with me. Apparently the song is about a girl who broke up with her boyfriend in December and […]

I will be in the 5PM service tonight…but this morning, this is the view from my pew.  Quiet.  Still.  Peaceful.  Reflective.  And a bit misty. One of my professors this week was discussing evangelism in light of Matthew 4:19.  “Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men.”  He was arguing that evangelism should […]

  “Its 4’OClock in the morning damnit!  Listen to me good”! –Elton John   Yesterday morning I woke up early.  No light coming yet from the rising sun.  No sounds yet of our neighborhood waking up. My eyes were bleary and blinking hard.  Waiting patiently for them to focus before I finally rolled over to look […]

My youngest son sent me the link to Kony2012 on the morning that it launched last week and it had only been viewed 2,000 times.  He always seems to be on the leading edge of all things youtube.  A few hours later our pastor tweeted it, then it started showing up all over my feed.  […]