So, our State Fair is going on here in Arizona. It’s not quite like State or County Fairs in places like Wisconsin or Oregon. I imagine in those places all manner of fall magic: real cider, pumpkin soup and fresh smells of cinnamon and roasted corn with churned butter. I picture colorful warm lights strung [...]
I can’t adequately describe how much fun I’m having writing content for the characters from “Bo’s Café” as they talk to each other on our new website-bo’scafe.com
You click on the door of the restaurant and it takes you out onto the upstairs deck, where you’re seated at a table next to the regulars. Each week [...]
September 7th, 2009 by John Lynch
Today I’ve been thinking about that place in us that doesn’t change by will power, diligence or good intention. It’s our perception of ourselves. My self-perception, historically, has seemed to fluctuate like the stock market, between an inflated sense of greatness and irrational inferiority. Case in point:
Not long ago, I [...]
August 24th, 2009 by John Lynch
Not long ago we were out on the road again, presenting the Two Roads talk. I think I have spoken that message over 200 times and have never lost my passion for it.
Anyway, long story short-afterwards I’m chatting with a handful of new friends-and a man I don’t recognize steps [...]
August 21st, 2009 by John Lynch
It’s the middle of the night-and I’m up. This happens predictably when I don’t take a Tylenol PM. Somewhere in middle age I’ve lost the ability to sleep. It was a nice ability, now almost gone. Sitting here, in the dark, listening to the electricity hum, it’s easy to quickly [...]
If if we are supposed to trust God, and if we can trust God;, then what are we to trust Him with?
*1st-trust is not expecting that He’ll make things work out the way we always want. That’s not trusting God-it’s conjuring up a stupid and mean genie. For much of what we think should happen [...]
All my childhood I can’t remember trusting anyone with me. My best guess is I wasn’t sure anyone could or would adequately protect me. My response to hurt was not to find protection, but to resolve I wouldn’t allow others close enough to hurt me. I’m the classic child who thought he could protect himself, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]