Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.
Categories: food for thought
We all tend to look at life through filters.
I think it’s inherent in us to look at the world around us and try to make sense of it. We call this a “worldview.” It’s always interesting to me to talk with other people who have a different worldview than I do, because if nothing else, it reminds me that I don’t have everything figured out.
Categories: Meanderings (look it up), Sunday meditations
One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only. The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats, for God has accepted him….One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind….I know and am convinced in the Lord that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. (Rom. 14: 2-3, 5, 14, NASB, emphasis mine)
Categories: music, random stuff
Just a progress report…since I wrote this post last week, I have not missed a day practicing the guitar.
In just five days of playing consistently, I suck less at guitar than I did before.
Plus, my callouses are coming back.
I know this because there is pain in the fingertips of my left hand as I type this.
Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), politics? oh puh-leeze., Rantings
This post has been on the burner for several months, and I haven’t really made mention of anything political since the last presidential election (mainly because that’s not what this blog is about). But in just watching the unfolding of current events (including the health care debate), and continuing to ponder what the church’s role should be in such things…I think it’s time to write.
Categories: moments of truth
Categories: What the heck was THAT?
I was gonna write about procrastination today…but I think I’ll do it tomorrow.
Categories: What the heck was THAT?
Categories: Meanderings (look it up)
Categories: fun, random stuff, What the heck was THAT?
Categories: Sunday meditations
For this installment of the bi-weekly Sunday Meditations, I have a slightly different approach than normal. For the past few days, several passages from the “psalms of ascents” (Ps. 120-134) have been rolling around in my head and heart. Yesterday, I read them all the way through.
The “psalms of ascents”, as this set of 15 psalms is called, were traditionally sung by Jewish pilgrims as they walked the long ascent several times a year to the City of Jerusalem. They are songs to accompany “ascending the hill of the Lord.” I love these psalms because as I read them through, it’s as though I can feel my own soul being lifted up; taken together, they form an upward progression. (It is surmised that they were once one psalm, set in parts like Psalm 119 which comes immediately before them.)