Two weeks ago I hiked in the Lost Creek Wilderness of Colorado. Part of that Wilderness was ravaged in the largest forest fire in Colorado history, called the Hayman Fire, back in 2002. Even though the beauty of this part of Colorado cannot compare with the rugged beauty of the San Juans or the breath-taking glory [...]
Kodi and the Missional Lifestyle
We have 4 big dogs in the family, all of whom live at our Colorado Springs home. The 10 year old, Kodi, was diagnosed last week with an osteosarcoma in her shoulder -basically a bone cancer. And the hard news is that it is terminal, apart from a miracle. The difficult decision we had to [...]
What Bill W. Has Taught Me About Being Missional
I have a friend named Bill W. I’ve never actually met him, but everything I’ve heard about him from people I trust, and everything I’ve ever read that he has written has been wise. Some of it has been life-changing. And even though he probably never heard the term “missional,” he always understood it. One [...]
What Mary Teaches Me About Being Missional
The news Mary received was, no doubt, stunning. She would bear a child miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit, not by a man; and that her cousin Elizabeth was already miraculously pregnant with a child after child-bearing years; and that these two miracles were connected. Upon hearing all of this, Mary rushed southward several days journey [...]
What is “the Wall”?
Monday, November 16, 2009 Cancer Interrupting the series on “the wall”. 13 days ago my wife had a cyst (we thought) removed from her upper right leg. Only, it was cancer. Sarcoma, they call it. This one is rare, a spindle cell sarcoplasm, I think. So, in a moment our lives changed. I think the [...]
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