My girls… are amazing. They are growing so big, and Rebecca’s doing a great job of raising them and teaching them. I do miss them… and the wrestling, the games, the dress up (them, not me), the backyard soccer, the hugs and kisses. Here’s a photo of us, and a cherry pie they made me […]
My Boy
You’ve probably heard me talk about my son, Benjamin. He was born a week before I had to leave for Iraq. He has grown a lot in the past 3 months… my wife Rebecca recently sent me a photo that I had to show off: I don’t know what it is about sons… I love my […]
A New Generation of Christianity
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” -Victor Hugo I have recently (okay, for about the last 3 or 4 years) been reading, learning, and changing my paradigm concerning the church. I believe I have stumbled into a movement, a new generation of Christianity, that is slowly building steam. […]
Favor
Here’s a blog that I started a while back but I’m just now getting it online: As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the […]
The Kingdom Suffers Violence
This is a blog posted by Seth Barnes, on his site, Radical Living – In a Comfortable World. I’ll let you read it, and I ask you to pray for strength for the leaders of AIM and The World Race. The battle rages on. Consider this. In the last couple of days: World Racer Sarah Lapp got word […]
What is church, part 2. “Community and Covenant”
In my last blog (I know it was a while ago) I talked about an example of a church that was really a family, a community of believers that went far deeper than simply seeing each other on Sunday mornings. We shared, we loved, we lived together. Later this year, my family will be embarking on […]
What is church? Part 1
I recently got back in contact with some friends from our previous church–it was a small church of Air Force and Army families in Kaiserslautern, Germany. My family loved that church, and I’ll tell you why. Thanks to the fact we were a bunch of Americans in Germany, and through a great pastor (and family!), we […]
Rain
It’s dry here, obviously. (“It is the desert, Dave” I hear you saying). But it is really dry. Skin is dry and itchy. Wet clothes dry fast on a clothes line. It’s pretty crazy. But I didn’t realize just how dry it was until a few days ago, when it rained for the first time […]
Courageous Leadership
Hello again. I’d love to give you all more info on what I’m doing, but then I would probably go to jail. But in the meantime, here are some great thoughts on Leadership from John Maxwell. I borrowed these from Andrew Shearman’s blog. “When I began my career I was very ineffective as a leader […]