Posts Tagged ‘ministry’

Communal Hope

Rob and I spent some time chatting with LMU students last night about Creation Care. Officially, he and I were speakers on the topic for a “Theology on Tap” gathering. But, as seems to continally be the case, I found that as we ministered, so we received blessings tenfold.
These young men and women were mostly seniors [...]

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Empowerment

Be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi

One of the most wonderful things about my time as a high school teacher was seeing the students actively live out the values that we discussed in our daily 50 minutes together. It was seeing the “a-ha!” in their eyes when they realized they [...]

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The Post That Made It

Today I’ve written about 5 unfinished posts. None of them really seemed to “fit” today. Perhaps the’ll end up weaving their way back to the forefront, but for today, this is the post that made it.
There’s so many things swirling around my head. So many questions, so many possibilities, so many things to think about [...]

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Preparation

September is here again, and in this month I will begin my second year at Fuller Seminary. Technically, I’m about 1/2 way through my MDiv program because of my transfer units, but that will all be evened out this year as I cut back a little on classes. I’m hoping to focus more and more [...]

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Working Toward Community

 One of the joys of this past week was that we were able to host many different friends in our home. We cleaned our home, making sure it was a welcoming space. We made some homemade butter, baked bread, and made ice cream. We prepared meals from our CSA and farmer’s market produce, eggs, and [...]

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Trying Something New

As you might have noticed,  I’ve struggled a little lately with regular postings to my blog. This has happened for several reasons…devoting a lot of my time to my MDiv program being one of the factors, but another major one is that my priorities have been slowly shifting over the past year. Because of this, [...]

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