Just ran across some interesting excerpts from an interview with Todd Akin and Bryan Fischer’s doctor: You have to understand that people cannot break their ankles from a legitimate fall. When someone falls legitimately, the body produces hormones that inflate airbags around the ankles. Any fall that results in a broken ankle is clearly an…
(So my creative Monday post is showing up on Tuesday this week due to general laziness and technical difficulties.) As part of my rule of life, we’ve started having family prayer time several evenings a week. I have a prayer bead bracelet that I made a few months ago, and my children have been intrigued…
Well, it happened again. I had a lovely thought for my sermon that I just cannot justify putting in my sermon. It really has nothing to do with anything else I’m talking about. Plus, I’m already pushing 20 minutes which, for me, is a long sermon. So, because I cannot bear to delete it, here…
Here is the call to worship we are using this week. I wrote it to go along with our reading from Mark 8:27-33, but it is not at all specific to that scripture. We come as seekers, Unsure of what we seek. We come as followers, Not understanding the One we follow. We come…
I came across a bit of validation for this little blog series the other day. In Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Eugene Peterson writes, “We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.” All of this thinking about how to talk to…
So this is my new “Rule of Life” board. And I know it looks crazy. The thing is, my life is kind of crazy. In a good way, but still. Three kids at two different schools that have different start and end times–and they all get out of school early every Wednesday and sometimes the…
Dear School Administration: Please enforce the school dress code. After much searching, I found shorts for my daughter that cover her entire butt–IF they are in the rolled down position. She will be leaving the house with her shorts at an appropriate length. I trust they will stay that way. Dear Orchestra, Theater, and…
Sometimes there is one phrase in a given scripture passage that grabs my attention and seems to bear repeating. This happened for me this morning with part of verse 29 from the Ephesians 4 reading. So today I offer a call to worship based on Ephesians 4:29, as well as a piece for communion preparation…
I’m not posting creative prayer practices on Mondays right now, because I’m working hard on the materials for the Creative Arts Retreat in Daily Life. But I thought it would be nice to post something creative to start off the week. So here are some of the invitations that Grace and I made for her…
This is a fairly generic call to worship, written with the story of Nathan and David in mind: Leader:We come to hear the stories Side 1: of other people Side 2: in another world All: long ago. Leader: We come to hear the stories Side 1: that are also about us Side 2: today All:…
Spacious Faith 