-Sep 20, 20132 minDistracted Driving Laws Be DamnedIt snowed in the Rockies Wednesday night, and Thursday morning dawned bright. The white on blue made the mountains taller and closer: it...
-Nov 30, 20122 minMan UpThis past week, I heard my friend Rick Verkerk from Promise Keepers Canada share a startling statistic. If a child comes to Christ and...
-Oct 5, 20123 minGetting a Grip“Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control.” Proverbs 25:28 I was in a coffee shop the other day and a mom...
-Sep 28, 20122 minA Better Way to Build A TeamThis is my third and final post on the shape and content of our church’s staff meetings. In this post, I provide an outline for one of...
-Sep 14, 20123 minWhy I Love MeetingsThat’s something you rarely hear: “I love meetings.” But I genuinely do. At least, I love the ones at the church where I’m a pastor. And...
-Aug 29, 20123 minAre You Stoning Your Prophets? Part 2Last week, I wrote about handling criticism. I promised a second installment. Here it is. Years ago I read a story, the source of which...
-Aug 24, 20122 minAre You Stoning Your Prophets?It’s folly to stone your prophets. Yet I see it all the time: people (I include myself here) who deal with unwelcome truth by rejecting...
-Aug 17, 20123 minDo You Hear What I Hear?I’ve been preaching for 23 years now (not without ceasing, though I’m sure a few of my parishioners feel that way). I think I’m at best...
-Aug 10, 20122 minBetterThe curse of giftedness is laziness. It's complacency. It's settling for mediocrity, because mediocrity for a highly gifted person might...
-Jul 27, 20122 minWould I, Could I, Should I?I’m going to sharpen my focus for this column. Each week, I will zero in on one of three themes: Leadership, Creativity, or Spirituality....
-Jul 20, 20122 minSacred Memory, Holy AmnesiaJoshua Foer’s brilliant quirky book Moonwalking with Einstein documents his year of becoming a prodigy of memory. It was a pursuit he...
-Jun 22, 20123 minOne Blessing after AnotherGood-bye Pentrecwrt - We will miss this view. We are on the eve of leaving our rural hideaway in West Wales. We arrived on a dark night...
-May 25, 20122 minWhile in Rome, Do as the Romans?We're in southern Italy, in a breezy villa a short walk from the beach. The beach, embracing a wide expanse of blue-green sea, stretches...
-May 11, 20122 minIn the Eye of the BeholderMy Painting of a stream flowing under a stone bridge. Nicola's painting of an Island in Cardigan Bay I wanted to push myself creatively...
-May 4, 20122 minA Wave I’d like to CatchI'm reading about waves. Really. I brought along on my sabbatical Susan Casey's book The Wave, her sweeping and riveting account of...
-Apr 26, 20122 minWorking All Things Together For GoodI am learning to cook. One of the rules Cheryl laid down before we came to Wales was that she was only preparing a meal every third...
-Mar 30, 20122 minThe Last WordMarch, according to the folklore, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb – a particularly apt image right now, given that I'm in...
-Mar 9, 20123 minThe Lord is My ShepherdI'd never paid sheep much mind until I came to Wales. Here, they're impossible to ignore: they bleat outside the window, and stare,...
-Jan 8, 20122 minBecause You Say SoSometimes the only motivation for doing anything is that Jesus says so. Otherwise, we’re bankrupt. We simply can’t muster up the vision...
-Jan 2, 20122 minMaking All Things NewThe earth orbits the sun at a good clip. It fairly bustles, travelling at nearly 67,000 miles per hour, slowing or accelerating slightly...