Creepy Health Sermon

Watch out folks, I feel a rant coming on. We turned on the TV last night and saw our friend Joel’s face all smiley and southerny. The audience crowd looked to be as large as a superbowl crowd. I hadn’t really heard him preach before, so we decided to...

Tired

We’re tired. But happy. We’ve been running around like crazy people, connecting with many, many folks in the Dallas area. It’s been great, refreshing and fun, but when we spend every night away, it gets to you. So we took the afternoon off. Julia...

Who is Jesus?

Today at Staff Conference, Alan Hirsch talked about the importance of the centrality of Jesus. He asked, “What would happen if Jesus were airdropped down into your church today?” I wonder. Then he had us list traits of Pharisees. We listed things like:...

An ICRS Hiatus

I’m starting to feel normal again. Tomorrow I head to Denver to spend a week at ICRS. I’ll be posting sporadically about important things like creepy baby dolls and Jesus trinkets. I’ll have my first-ever ICRS book signings. I’m a little...

My Prayer for Today

Dear, dear Jesus, Thank you for the sunshine today. It’s lovely. Thanks for flowers, too. It brings me unending joy to nurture them to splendor, to walk among them like friends. Thank you for my children, my dear, dear children. Sophie’s growing up, Jesus....