In a few hours many of us will gather in the Fellowship Hall for a brunch to recognize and celebrate our graduating seniors and then bless them during the 10:00 service. I’ve spent the last week mulling through five years worth of photographs so that I could put...
I had coffee with my friend and confidant yesterday, and he gave me some feedback on my first post regarding living with disagreement. To boil down his response, he said, “Are you nuts?” He lovingly questioned my motive for posting and wondered if I had...
On May 13, 2014 the church in which I serve as the associate pastor decided to perform same-sex marriages. That was the day my wife walked out of the church and hasn’t come back. This has been an awkward, confusing, and painful year, and I’m ready to openly reflect...
I love James Cameron’s 1989 Adventure-SciFi-Drama The Abyss. The scene when Ed Harris is willing to breath in the liquid oxygen has always served as an analogy of baptism for me. He was willing to “die” in order to go deeper. I created this video to...
I did a little experiment this year and set a goal to make one video a month for the Own Your Faith students at Grace. Own Your Faith (OYF) is a process we invite our high school freshmen to experience leading up to Confirmation. They do three years of catechism in...
