Yesterday was largely eventless, which is what I'd like (and very well might need) more days to be. Beautiful springtime weather was a nice bonus, too. And while today is far more full, it's not looking as overfull as many Sundays can be, so this weekend may just turn out looking like a weekend all the way through ( Read more... )

I miss writing here, yet the sheer volume of what I'd need to write to "catch up" is staggering and grows by the minute. There's no solution, only diving in and doing the thing with hopes of returning to form or finding a new rhythm.

The past couple of months have been brimmingly full, including a lovely trip to Scotland with barlow_girl in March, where we ( Read more... )

Grace doesn't cost me anything. Responding to grace does.

( As a Christian, does Obama have a responsibility to come under his pastor's authority? )

Is God an absentee landlord? Jesus says yes.

(Our pastor preached on this passage this week, dealing specifically with leadership; you can listen here.)

How do we deal with God's presence and His absence? It's much easier to choose one or the other and stick with it. One route is to chant "God is good, all the time" to the exclusion of the broken ( Read more... )

In serving each other, we become free.

-First Knight
Pressed to consider service from new angles recently. My job is being expanded/retooled to include coordinating our service in the city of Seattle-getting people connected and involved, developing relationships with service agencies, and creating a context for understanding service through the ( Read more... )

Said it until I'm blue, but I absolutely hate when people put God on the hook for promises He's never made.

I'm trying to think of what wasn't discouraging about MTV's True Life, "I'm in an Interfaith Relationship," and I'm coming up with nothing. I'm sure there are people who've given honest, diligent consideration to differing faiths and their impacts on their relationships. Regrettably, they weren't represented by the two couples on the show ( Read more... )

What have you told yourself you deserve that's actually a gift?

Because I see variations of this all over, all the time...

Poll God and The One
If you have Scripture references or another basis for your belief (or any additional thoughts on the topic at all), please feel free to share that in a comment.

Edit: Just realized it's going to drive me nuts if people choose the "Scriptural basis" option for one of the affirmative ( Read more... )