My Blog
Do New Christians Experience Church Shock?
Church Shock. Yep, kind of like culture shock. You know, culture shock: that feeling of disorientation from being emplaced in a foreign country for a period of time. Interestingly, culture shock is a fairly common phenomenon that occurs to people without ever leaving...
Time To Reconsider Our Relationship With Time?
I was reading an article recently about the value of time as it relates to stress and punctuality in our Western society. It seems the American tendency to be up tight about time is extreme in comparison to other cultures. Sometimes the day seems like people run...
The Present by Carol Peterson
Today’s post, “The Present", is from one of my favorite blogger friends, Carol Peterson. Carol is a writer with a heart for encouragement, sharing parables of faith at her blog for kids, readers and writers as well. The first thing I do when I receive a...
Life In The Meadows
Think about it... we start off life in the meadows. Fields of green grass that are pristine, with Bighorn Sheep grazing in the park. These "parks" in the Rockies are meadows or mountain valleys. My image is of Estes Park, Colorado, the headquarters for the Rocky...
Lost In The Summer Of Fiction On An Island Of Leadership And Vulnerability
"We're all in this together." - John Locke from Season 1 We've been watching the series Lost the past couple of months. Julia and I have really enjoyed watching it together as neither of us saw the series when it was originally broadcast. We're currently in Season 5....
The God-Honoring Courage And Calling Of Nehemiah
Today I'm a guest at Carol Peterson's blog, From Carol's Quill. Nehemiah was a man of action. He was outstanding at organizing others and at inspiration. He held a prominent position in the government of Persia. However, that position wasn't his calling. This idea of...