The Divine Crash

In 66 days I will be finished with my seminary education. That thing I have been working towards will finally be mine. Then what? I will wake up the morning of June 4th with my Master’s degree and then what do I do? Is real life supposed to begin then? If [...]

I bought a new recorder and last week it worked fine. Today it recorded without a problem but now it appears to have erased everything.  Not sure why or how it happened but at least my notes will go up.  Enjoy them and feel free to comment.  We are working through forgiveness and the 6 [...]

Dear Jesus,
Some of us are slackers and we can’t help it.  Some of us would rather sleep in than go to school/work/church or anything else.
Help us, give us strength and increase our metabolism so we have energy to do it.
Make the TV stop working, cut the Internet, take our excuses.
Replace them with a spirit [...]

On Monday I got some feedback on my sermons that I wrote for an ethics class.  It is a sermon series on forgiveness, it is the same series that I am using for lent as we speak.  I got a B+ because I used strong examples that may get strong responses that should be avoided. [...]

Today we started a new series for Lent.  We are going to study the early church’s steps to forgiveness.  Feel free to listen at the bottom of the post or via my iTunes podcast.  However, if you listen to the audio, the twelve year old boy you hear preaching is me, I have a cold [...]

On Friday I got home from Germany to a house full of sick people.  By Monday we rushed my son to the hospital, he wasn’t breathing well.  We sat in the ER of Pittsburgh Children’s hospital for what seemed like hours.  The people were wonderful and took great care of my son.  Once they gave [...]

Dear Jesus, I am in the home stretch.  In ten weeks I will become the first person in my family to have a master’s degree.  Sometimes I feel like the master of very little.  Give me strength for the final push and keep me safe while I work hard on this term.  You have [...]

It is with great joy I share with you that my wife is a brand new blogger! Check out her site www.stainedwithgrace.com.  You should leave her a comment and enjoy what she has to say.  She is an amazing woman filled with the Holy Spirit and you can see that in everything she does.