Just Wondering…

Questions of Church Planting: Focusing on Structural Dynamics

I have been trying to stay away from blogging for awhile so I can focus more on writing visionary work for our hopes of church planting. Lately, I have been turning my thoughts toward the structural dynamics of Epiphany Christian Fellowship and after conversing with a friend about it, he sent me an email with … Read more

Transforming the World: It always starts with the Actions of One Person – Maybe It is You!

“Sometimes we don’t need another chance to express how we feel or to ask someone to understand our situation. Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then lets see something to prove it.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer … Read more

Empowering One Another

“If you explore the life of things and of conditioned being you come to the unfathomable. If you deny the life of things and of conditioned being you stand before nothingness. If you hallow this life you meet the living God.” Martin Buber Several years ago I can remember reading a quote in Philip Yancey’s … Read more

With All of Your Soul – Faith Lived Out Through Holistic Practice

Ed Stetzer writes in his book ‘Planting Missional Churches’ that, “The most surprising news of postmodernity is that postmoderns are on a ‘spiritual search and not an intellectual quest.’ They’re willing to take that quest with Christians, if we’re genuine and live a holistic faith.” This is not a new concept which he is acknowledging … Read more

With All of Your Heart: Seeking Christ Like Character From the Inside Out

“The heart is the center of emotions, feelings, moods, and passions. Equated with the heart are joy (Deut. 28:47; Acts 2:26), grief (Ps. 13:2; Lam. 2:11), ill-temper (Deut. 15:10), love (Phil. 1:7), courage (2 Sam. 17:10; Ps. 27:14), and fear (Gen. 42:28).” The heart of an individual defines both the positive and negative psyche he … Read more

Loving God: Pursuing His Utmost With Our Utmost

At the core of all things Jesus tells us that we are to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Love at first seems a simple term however; the love that Jesus describes seems to be lost in the translation. By the English … Read more

More Happy Quads

“Sometimes I wonder if I’m a member of an endangered species – one of the remaining members of the happy, well-adjusted, “just glad to be alive person with a severe disability” tribe. Now I’m not Marry Poppins, and I don’t go around singing show tunes all day, but I’m definitely genuiunely loving my life these … Read more