Archive for the 'Ethics and Holiness' Category

It’s official - I’m my father

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

I believe I’ve blogged about this before, but lately in Northern California, we’ve had high heat and smoke everywhere from the many fires burning in our state.  This, along with high energy costs, leads to a new urgency to…  wait for it… keep the door closed!
I don’t want to cool the neighborhood!  (Of course I took engineering [...]

Put my crayons up high, Dad

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Lately, my son Joshua has had some trouble with drawing on the floor, walls, furniture, and windows with crayons.  We’ve always had an understanding that crayons are only to be used on paper, and he can answer the question, “Where do we used crayons?”  “On paper, Dad.”  But temptation strikes, and our little artist feels [...]

God works through difficult stuff

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I preached on sex, lust, and divorce on Sunday.  Blech!
I knew that I needed to do it, but I sure didn’t like the idea of standing in front of a whole group of people and talking about sex.  Heck, I don’t want to talk to a small group of people about sex.  And [...]