Slow Sensible Talk

Garrison Keillor is one of my all-time favorites. I want to say "favorite author", but it's more than his writing. I could say "favorite entertainer", but that seems so simplistic. After A Prairie Home Companion, I don't feel entertained - I feel at peace.I'd like to say that he's one of my all-time favorite people, …

What Leadership Demands

I came to my job at PCC with relatively low expectations for my role and responsibilities.  After worshiping from the seats for several months as an attender (and crying through the services, just like so many others) I eventually began to serve as a musician.  They needed a piano player, and I played, so there …

Love This, Right Now

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2806154&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"Give it all" from NewSpring Media on Vimeo.

God Can Do Anything, You Know…

I had a phone call early (for me, anyway) this morning.  It was a friend who wanted to share something from the Bible that she felt was really pertinent to our church right now.  It's a scripture verse I've read before, but in light of the week's events and the undercurrent of electricity and anticipation …

Care

This made me cry today.I'm floored when God reveals some part of life to me, when I - in my utter self-absorption - am running around caught up in all the minute details of my life, and things like this are happening right around the corner.God of mercy, grace and compassion - give us your …

"Qualified by grace."Just thinking about that today.*inspired, as often, by Anne Jackson

Awaken

I read this tonight and found it quite thought-provoking."When you hear "Repent for your past", realize it's a great religious distraction from waking up.  Wake up!  That's what repent means.  Not "weep for your sins."  Wake up!  Stop all the crying.  Understand!  Wake up!" - Anthony De Mello, Jesuit priest and author

To Be Loved…

Pete Wilson is a pastor in Nashville, a husband and a father.And a very honest blogger.If you've ever wrestled with the debilitating desire to be loved, to be accepted at any cost, to find your value in others' opinions (hey - I KNOW who you are!), you will be encouraged and perhaps challenged by this …

My brother gave me some good advice regarding dealing with my difficulties. I thought I'd share it:"I was reading the gospels and the thought occurred to me that the more we focus on the wide open spaces of the Kingdom of grace, the smaller our problems become. As humans we PREFER to focus in our …