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Success is Not An Accident

Last night we were at an academic awards ceremony at my son's high school.  Naturally, Toni and I were very grateful for what he accomplished.  But it was great to be in a room with kids who had achieved so much already in life. 
I was really struck by the words of the M.C. that [...]

Road Trip

So my oldest son Jordan and I are off a on a road trip tomorrow morning.  We'll wrap it up next week at the Orange Tour stop in Los Angeles.
So excited to have the best part of a week with just the two of us wandering around the west coast.  He planned the route. Let [...]

Could It Be?

I am grateful and challenged by the posts last week and this week about what you want to hear preached and what your friends might want to hear.  Keep them coming!
Now I have a disturbing question. 
Could it be that a lot of the subjects we want to hear about (apologetics, denominations, money making, pagan [...]

Refuel (5)

Shift Five: Pursue Intimacy
As we get ready for our lives to get back to "normal" right after Labour Day, here’s one more thing that I hope will help you create a new "normal":  pursue intimacy with God.
Sure, we want to pursue God.  But do most of us want to pursue intimacy with God?  If we [...]

My Head Hurts from Hitting too Many Glass Ceilings

I’ve been thinking a lot about glass ceilings.  You know the expression — we say the sky’s the limit but in reality, there’s a ceiling that prevents us from achieving what’s promised.  The limit is hard to see at first, but it’s there.
Here’s where my brain is in the last month: how many glass [...]

seconds later….

seconds after hitting "post" on my insomniac piece, I get tired.  it’s like "whump" – tired hit me.  maybe one of you read it and prayed for me. maybe it was the cow. in any event, thanks.
any way, i’m now officially much too tired for all this.  i’ll write in the morning.  thanks for listening.
sometimes [...]

Link Love – The People I Read

Over the last six months, some people have sent me some link-love…references to my site on theirs.  Moving into the blogosphere six months ago myself, I’ve learned a lot from a lot of people. 
Here are some (not all) of the people I read and learn from:

Jay Hardwick is a friend a church planter in [...]

Nice Way Start to the New Year? Sure…

So it’s New Year’s Day, and I’m trying to build a rink in the front yard for Sam, my hockey-crazy son.  At the same time, I’ve been reading a deeply challenging book on humility and dying to self, by Andrew Murray.   It’s a great juxtaposition.
On Sunday afternoon, to build the base for the rink, I [...]

Christmas Stripped Down

I’m kind of excited about having our Christmas Eve outdoors this year.  It’s about as stripped down as we’ve ever done Christmas. We’ll have some staging, lights and a good sound system, great music, hot chocolate, and short and I pray powerful message about forgiveness, but there will be a simplicity to it that intrigues [...]

Hypocrites Wanted

Hi, I’m Carey.  And I’m a hypocrite.
My words don’t match my action.  My intentions don’t get played out.  I think I’m more virtuous than I am.  And I’m not sure I represent Jesus or the Christian faith well.  Put Jesus beside me, and me beside Him, and see how similar they are.  I shudder [...]