There's a part in David Crowder's song that goesIn the roar of Your waterfall
In the storm of You
May You find me holding on
May You find me true
If God has been raging all around me in the past while ( Read more... )

we continue to rely on electricity too much. to the point that a temporary shortage of power for even 30 minutes halts all activity for an hour or more ( Read more... )

Right now, I am sitting in my room, with a huge serving of a home-made ground beef & vegetable (zucchini, eggplant, onions & feta cheese, oh my!) lasagna on my plate.

Just then, I was reading warm fuzzies 3 of my homies had written to me in ( my mailbox(!) )

I've been posting a lot of quotes and articles recently, and this hasn't been an honest representation of some, only some, of what I've been personally learning and thinking about these past weeks. I think these have become my intentions for this online journal anyways, because I like to process things by writing things out, and to somewhat of a ( Read more... )

One of the great duties of the Christian mind is imagination. It is not the only thing the mind does. The mind observes. The mind analyzes and organizes. The mind memorizes. But imagination is different. It does not observe or analyze what's there; it imagines what is not seen but might be there and might explain what is there (as in the case of ( Read more... )

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I welcome, fully support and strongly advocate for continued emphasis on the fact that biblical faith necessarily leads to action on behalf of the poor and the oppressed. We must preach this in our churches. I am not questioning this as a fundamental component of saving faith. I am, however, suggesting that in a time when social justice is quite ( Read more... )

Coming back from an intense Bible study and Animal Collective and lightning! and rain! and thunder rolling everything into one crazy night. My window's open and I'm loving it. That's a fragment of a moment I'd never expect to pass through my life ever again.

See you at the pole tomorrow morning. Or if you're in Kingston, at Summerhill, 7:30am.

So I was supposed to meet someone at Coffee & Co. at 8:30am this morning and -- I just knew it! -- I rolled out of bed at 8:45am after rolling into it at 3am the night before. Why do I do this to myself? I stood up in my room for a groggy 2 minutes before it registered that someone was using the bathroom & from there, I decided to dress, shove on ( Read more... )

Wow. I just know it and believe it that God is going to do great, big things in our cell group this year. Thank You for an incredible first night ( Read more... )