Category: Tour Guides and Pilgrims
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I really could relate to this story that Erwin McManus shares in his book The Barbarian Way. You have to ask yourself if the the way you live out your faith is perhaps a bit too civilized…and not crazy enough: I used to serve on the Board of Intercultural Studies at Biola University, mostly because…
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Well, we lasted longer than I had thought we could in our TV/DVD fast, but we eventually caved in about 3 weeks into the Lenten journey. We haven’t been watching a lot (comparatively) since breaking the fast, but we have been watching some of our TV series and an occasional movie on days other than…
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In our Sunday gathering today the main speaker was talking about all the changes that happen in our world. He was relating these modern changes to the changes that the nation of Israel was facing before and during the Babylonian captivity. By doing so he was trying to show us how some of Jeremiah’s prophetic…
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Today is Ash Wednesday or, as my friend J-Lo (not Jenifer Lopez) pointed out, the beginning of what the Orthodox church refers to as Bright Sadness (a.k.a. Lent). Some blogging friends have posted their perspectives on this Christian observance (e.g. J-Lo’s post, Bridget’s post) and have given me a new sense of anticipation for this…
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These guys are traveling around the world in 444 days…. I just found their blog and am going to try to convince them to change their itinerary to include Xining (somehow?) I have not read many of their actual posts yet, but I saw on a few that they mentioned being Christian. I can’t imagine…
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"It’s interesting how you sometimes have to leave home before you can ask difficult questions, how the questions never come up in the room you grew up in, in the town in which you were born. It’s funny how you can’t ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a…
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Sometimes I think life can be lived underwater. Or seemingly so. Often I look back at a period of time and think to myself, Where did it go? Was I really present for that event? Am I floating? Head and arms numbed by the sensation of fluidity, bobbing as the waves lull me along. I…
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What a year, huh? For us, obviously, 2005 has been a wild ride. From moving into the 5-bedroom ESTATE in Mountlake Terrace (just a stone’s throw from I-5) to living like gypsies from house-to-house in Mill Creek, Snohomish, and Edmonds, Washington and then FINALLY uprooting ourselves to a new continent entirely. We sweated in Singapore.…
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[Warning: This long post is personal in nature and deals with some of what God has been teaching me lately. For the standard fluff, come back some other time…] The last few days I think I have purposefully been avoiding this place (meaning, the blog). It’s a strange thing to admit and a stranger thing…
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It’s Thanksgiving for us already…but I won’t go into the turkey details until we’ve actually had some. We’re gathering with some other Americans from our team to celebrate this afternoon. I am told there will even be pumpkin pie! There’s many things to be thankful for this year and the things that quickly come to…
yeti speak... 