I pop my touring skis on and begin a slow uphill climb over rain saturated snow on this perfectly typical northwest day. I’m grateful...

I'm not posting regularly right now, as I'm on sabbatical, which this past week has consisted of living without electricity, and being...

My vocational season didn’t shift quietly, that’s for certain. There were large, and beautifully appropriate, public declarations about...

I’d just finished a meeting Saturday morning around a campfire in our backyard when they arrived. Our neighbor brought over the steps...

What follows isn’t from my new book, but it articulates the theme: We‘ll be at our best and get on with serving our world as people of...

Do you remember being afraid of the dark? There’s something about not knowing ”what’s out there” that leads to speculation, which leads...

Two weeks ago, after enjoying a remarkable outing at Oracle Park in San Francisco, (home of the beloved Giants, whose logo alone evokes...

Surely God is in this place and I didn't know it - Jacob the patriarch Do not neglect to show hospitality.... Hebrews 13 I walk into the...

OK, there was a sixteen year break in the middle, I’ll grant you that. But I began attending Bethany Community Church in 1976, left...

“…keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.“ Paul the apostle “…dispense true justice and practice...

No doubt you know many people who have dropped out of some realm of life... their calling, their relationship with God, their involvement...

We're learning to draw on the resources of Christ's life rather than our own resources - to eat from the fat of the land, rather than the...

What's lost? Our identity in Christ. Our world is filled with lies that literally steal the possibility of us living into our truest...

I'll be speaking this weekend in Southern California at a place called Forest Home. At a time when the church is polarized, confused,...