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Greetings Viola fans

Just saying Hi if you’re visiting here coming from Frank Viola’s blog. Thanks Frank for the linkback!

Finding my voice

I was just about ready to post my first installment in the “Love Jam” series a couple of days ago, and then I realized that it sucked. It sounded like generic commentary pap and platitudes. It appears I need a little time to find my “authentic voice” and really get this series going in the [...]

Back from my many travels

I’m back in the office today, back in the saddle so to speak. Spent the last week and a half traveling to various Christian conferences and events, and lots been going on. I’ll write more about it later. Certainly came back to interesting news — President-Elect Obama! Though he stands against pretty much everything I [...]

Flew

The past few days have just flown by. It’s been, uh, intense. I wish I could share more at the moment, but basically things have started changing all around me in a variety of surprising ways. But, in the midst of it all, God has been firmly in control, and I feel His peace surrounding [...]

Blogging with my iPhone

Cool….I just installed the WordPress app on my iPhone. Now I can blog from anywhere! Bwha ha ha! On another note, while bopping around in S.F. this Saturday, I got an extensive tour of an actual Liberty Ship, the S.S. Jerimiah O’Brien, part of the Merchant Marine fleet that landed at Normandy Beach on D-day [...]

Worst commute evah

Sorry I haven’t posted much recently…this week’s been super busy as I’m part of a major systems rollout at the company I work at…and to top it all off, I just got off the worst commute evah. I mean it. The worst I’ve ever had. Three and a half hours to get from Santa Rosa [...]

Apostolic church

I’ve been reading a lot lately about apostolic church planting and growth…a movement that looks much more like the organic chaos of the New Testament era or the underground Chinese Christian explosion than the carefully planned and meticulously executed church scene of today’s America. I’ll share more of my findings with you in the days [...]

Criticize by creating

Great artists steal, according to Picasso, so I’ll borrow a page from Mark Batterson and say how much I like the idea of becoming the solution to the problem. It’s so easy to sit around and gripe about what’s wrong in churches and then leave when it bugs you…the hard choice is getting off your [...]

Taking a few days off

I’ve been taking some time off the last few days, and though I return to work later this week, I’ll probably resume my normal blogging next week — although part-way through I’ll be heading up to Redding, CA for the JesusCulture conference once again. I’m sure that’ll probably grab the bulk of my attention, but [...]

Wait for it…

announcement coming today — sorry for the delay! (Hey, it rhymes! But I’m running out of time! uuuhhh…)