Tonight we are hosting a TrueFaced Worldview event here in Denver at my in-laws house. At least I hope we are. Wouldn’t you know that the day of the event the snow would start flying! Yesterday it was a beautiful Colorado day; nice and warm without a cloud in the sky. Today we have gotten [...]
My internet went down this morning so I had some time to do something that I don’t get to do as much as I like: I got to read. I know, I’m in publishing and I write and edit a lot so of course I should be an avid reader too. There was a time [...]
Lately I have been thinking about what I do with this message of grace that I carry around inside me. I mean, here is a thing that shapes my theology and it is part and parcel of my everyday faith journey. But not everyone knows about it. I mean people that I am friends with, [...]
Tonight, I’m setting up a discussion time for our next generation leadership group. Some of our leaders and all our elders are taking about 70 young leaders through a process of preparing them to gradually take over the leadership of our fragile, funky church. We call it Timothy Trust. So I’ve written a lengthy tome [...]
I sat in a class yesterday about humanity, like, who are humans and why did God make us and all sorts of other big questions that I am way undereducated to be able to answer. I guess that’s what you get when you take a class from an Oxford educated philosophy PhD. It was fascinating [...]
Today I am wondering about my own theological take on pain and suffering. I have friends that are really going through it right now—mind numbingly awful stuff. And sometimes I don’t know what to say. I want to offer encouragement, and I want to tell them that God is there with them but I also [...]
I had a realization last night as I was going to bed. This doesn’t usually happen because my brain moves very, very slowly in the evenings. But last night it hit me: I am to imitate Christ (no duh). Christ stands with me, his arm around me, as I try to make it through this [...]
I get to do chapel for a bunch of middle school kids at my girl’s school in a couple of weeks. I have been thinking about what to talk about. I have a few stories to tell. I can talk about my battle with mental illness—I am bi-polar. I can talk about drug and alcohol [...]
I wrote something on facebook that got a few comments. I said that life isn’t something that gets between me and God, but rather God stands beside me and we deal with life together. This is just a slight re-wording of a principle that we hold dear here. We usually say that it not sin [...]
I never wanted children. I just wanted to be married. Stacey never wanted to be married. She just wanted children. But the state laws were pretty strongly worded against her desires…so she married me.
…And she has taught me how to love being a dad. And it changed everything.
Affirmation is a big deal in our family. [...]