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First audio post! Listen to your humble author

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally arrived at the point where I’m ready to begin creating audio posts. I’m excited about honing my meager skills in verbal communication and using this as an additional medium for sharing ideas, insights, and inspiration on Finite Calls Infinite. Listen to the first installment here where [...]

Doing the micro thing

My history with micro-blogging has been rather sketchy, but I’m beginning to understand the relationship between the quick little thoughts in my brain and the impulse to write — the notion that as ideas come to me, I jot them down quickly rather than waiting for a grand revelation. Thus, I am going to be [...]

Catching up!

Whew, it’s been a while. I was out of town from February 6th through 8th making the biannual trek up to Redding, CA for JesusCulture. As always, it was an awesome conference, and I came back with a renewed pledge to tend the dreams that God has given me and be a faithful steward of [...]

Life around the holidays — a year of many blessings!

As we head towards Christmas Day and New Year’s, I feel blessed beyond words with all that the Lord has shown me and given to me this year. 2008 was prophesied to be the year of New Beginnings, and lo and behold it certainly was for me in many ways. If this sounds all good [...]

A revelation of things present

Since the latter part of October, I have been strangely silent on this blog without giving an explanation why. It hasn’t been for lack of news or insight, but rather a need for privacy. This is still necessary to a large extent, but I have been given the liberty and opportunity to share with you [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving day and good holiday cheer with friends and family. I am personally doing very well, and I hope to return to some semblance of a normal posting schedule in December and also let you know what’s been going on in my life. In the meantime, may God bless [...]

Behind the Curtain: Present Unveiled, Part 1

In the previous couple of posts in this series, I wrote a bit about the journey I’ve been on over the past few years. I was intending on continuing in short order with a further exposé of what was going on in my life right now and I what I felt God was calling me [...]

I am sick, and in this case, sick is bad

I wish I could say I’m sick and mean it in the good, slang sense of the word, but the fact is that I got some kind of nasty stomach flu. Last night was bad…and I mean bad. But I won’t gross you out with the details. Suffice it to say, all the groovy stuff [...]

Bill Gates…regular guy?

So there’s a second ad out now with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. Yes, I’m a petty enough Mac fanatic to refrain from embedding the YouTube video. You can watch it here. This one’s kinda amusing. The first one took me a few times to watch before I even got the point of what was [...]

Rethinking structure

There is a growing move in the church, and interestingly in the charismatic wing of the church, to question current structures and methods for doing the work of ministry. The reason it’s interesting from a charismatic point of view is that in the past we’ve been viewed as the people that are the most willing [...]