Month: July 2009

I’ve been trying to allow this blog to reflect my journey day-by-day — that means that I have some good days and some bad days and it all gets reflected here. I am also trying to not get too involved with rumors flying around, etc. I can’t reall… →

I got this in an email from a good friend today. It was really powerful to meditate on, so I am passing it on to to you: We don’t think ourselves into a new way of living; we live ourselves into a new way of thinking. The journeys around the edges… →

I have started going to a Men’s Accountability/Support/Recovery group called Pure Desire. It has been a really good and really hard experience. I posted on twitter the other day that I have never had a small group experience like I did the other n… →

This might not matter to other people, but it has been an important issue for me to work through myself. When your world blows up, sometimes it can take some time to sort through the mess and figure out what really happened — was the real problem… →

In James 5:16, we are taught: “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” Pretty straightforward and pretty powerful. Yet hard to do. I don’t know about you, but I am discovering that I have been … →

Here is a copy of my resignation letter I submitted to the Board on July 3rd: Dear Board: I hope you will share this letter with the Board and our members. It is with great sadness and regret that I am writing this letter to you resigning as Lead … →

I know I haven’t been blogging much or even posting updates as I promised. Life is pretty unsettled at the moment and I am trying to unplug a bit these days. I will start blogging and updating again after my two week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard … →

The last sermon I gave at the church I just left — and possibly the last sermon I will ever give — was entitled “Jesus Is Greater Than My Failure”. I rarely listen to my open sermons, but I have had to listen to this one a couple of times to rem… →

I spent the last week in Ohio, which has become a bit of a refuge for me. I spent the first part of the week in Cincinnati with Bart Campolo, and the second part of the week in Cleveland with J.R. Mahon (and Diane, Mia, Angel & Zian!). I have been… →

Here is a great sermon from Bart Campolo… worth listening to! →