Read this in none other than Leonard Sweet’s Soul Tsunami this afternoon. Thought it was cool. By the way I’m not a slow reader, its just a 400 page book. He quotes Erma Bombeck in a column she wrote entitled “What’s Saved Is Often Lost.”
I don’t save anything. My pockets are empty at the end [...]

God of Grace
You are the God of grace
Why can’t I see that
You love to love me
You are happy when you love me
What kind of God are you
I don’t understand this
I don’t even understand any of it
It makes no sense to a man like me
It makes no sense to anyone
What is grace, what is love, what [...]

Confident foolishness. Supreme satisfaction. An overarching smile. These are just random thoughts. I need to expound on them one day. Right now I’m dead smack in the middle of an incredible book by Leonard Sweet, Soul Tsunami. Every “church” leader who wants to particpate in effective ministry from this point in time and in the [...]

Relationship vs. Religion
written in 1999
Which is the better? Relationship causes us to be dependent. While religion drowns us in our own strength. Relationship produces fire and passion in our lives. Religion produces complacency. Relationship drives us to serve. Religion drives us to apathy. Relationship draws us to dangerous. Religion draws us to something safe. Relationship [...]

Another Semester of School
Today is the first day of school. Let me tell you how excited I am. Can you hear it in my type? It seems like with every semester that goes by, I grow in a huge way. Every semester that I come to school it seems like I already have a nice [...]

Church
This would be a pretty cool ad for some church or mission statement or core beliefs or values or something like that.
We are committed to exploring Christian Spirituality in a whole new way. We recognize that the world we live in is an entirely different place than it has ever been. Our world has undergone [...]

I have no prayer
No offerings
No words
Only a whisper of You
You’re so deep
Profound
I can’t understand or explain
Your knowledge is unlimited
Widsom infinite
You created and know all things
Paled in comparison I stand
Able to give so little
Presenting nothing that You don’t have
Except for a whisper
A life to echo You
A life to give to You
A life to live for You

Excerpts from Soul Tsunami
by Leonard Sweet
Every generation before now learned about the world directly from authority figures through seat-based learning. Parents, teachers, and priests, among others, were the credentialing gateways to knowledge: social and academic and religious. Now kids learn about the world on their own from people they don’t know, never see, and never [...]

In the solitude he spoke
In the silence:
I can’t lead until I learn to be led
I can’t teach until I am taught
I can’t be trusted, until I have been proven trustworthy
There is still much more to learn
A good heart though
You’ll see before its over
You’ll see and I’ll show you

Man I’m tired. It seems like the days never end and when they do they just blur into the next day. At this point in my life it just all seems the same. So routine. So ordered. I mean its “where I’m supposed to be right now”. But it just gets old. I’d like a [...]