What’s the deal with Peter Ruckman? Why is he so fascinating? I admit I’ve been drawn in a little bit from time to time. It’s like a wreck on the side of the highway, we just can’t help but take a look. If you don’t know who he is, be careful, curiosity may draw you [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 29, 2008
Prayer Time Perils
A friend of mine from seminary is the Small Groups Pastor at the Church we attended (he obviously still goes there). His blog recently reminded me of what Sunday School/Small Groups/Home Groups/Whatever Words You Call It, prayer times can be like. AND, more importantly what they should be like. Take a peek and ponder how [...]
July 29, 2008
A $100 Icy
Today I was craving an icy. I regularly do in the summertime. Those great gas station concoctions. I pulled into a fuel city in a rush, and of course on the phone. I got out with the phone still in my hand and on my way into the gas station I was throwing away a [...]
July 28, 2008
Vacation Post Edit! (Sorry)
A few of you clicked onto the link I gave for the family blog my wife updates. It was the wrong blog! Sorry. Here’s the link to the correct one!
July 28, 2008
The End of My Friend’s Cancer?
One of my dearest friends at Little Mountain (the church I pastor) is a 90 year old retired pastor. He’s truthfully, without a doubt, the MOST loving man I have ever met. He’s a firm believer that God always heals when we pray in faith. Let me explain it with some caveats, however, b/c he [...]
July 27, 2008
The End of Vacation…
Is something akin to the day all the Christmas decorations come down. For the moments they were up Christmas was still in season, like the feeling of being on vacation. Taking down the decorations is like the ride home from, in our case the beach. Once you start you’re on a mission to just do [...]
July 15, 2008
Pastor Salaries (or I stand naked before you all)
Have you ever had the “naked” dream? The one where you show up somewhere public only to realize that you must have forgotten to put any clothes on? I had it for the first time as a pastor a few weeks ago. I was, for some reason only my dream knows, sitting in the back [...]
July 13, 2008
Turning it Off or Not Bringing it Home
One of the most unmanageable parts of being a pastor is being able to separate “work” from “home.” I wonder what it might be like to work a job where when it’s time to go home, I do not think about my job until I go back again the next day. Where my conversations at [...]
July 5, 2008
Sleeping Alone: Our Selfishness Revealed in Marriage
This entire week I’ve slept alone. Not to worry, it’s not because my wife and I have been fighting, because we hate each other, or in any way because we want to. I’ve been sick and contagious and she can’t afford to catch it, and then pass it on to our two girls. So she [...]
July 3, 2008
Take Your Sabbath Before it Takes You!
Take a Sabbath (rest), or a Sabbath will take you. That is the lesson I learned this week. For about two weeks some kind of sickness has been chasing me around, but never quite caught me. During that time I ignored two things that came back to haunt me. First, I ignored my body. It [...]
