I’m hitting the road again tomorrow for a short trip to Dallas. I’m helping with a Disciplship Summit on Saturday at Richardson Nazarene Church. In addition to helping out, I’m also doing a listening session on youth ministry. It should be good. If you are in the area you should bring a group. I’m flying in Friday and if anyone is up for a good meal and better conversation I have some time Friday evening.
March 2008
Monthly Archive
March 12, 2008
Heading to Big D
Posted by ragingbhull under Nazarene, faith, speaking, work, youth ministry | Tags: disciple, Nazarene, Travel, work |Leave a Comment
March 6, 2008
Beauty in Chaos
Posted by ragingbhull under Jesus, Nazarene, culture, emerging church, faith, work | Tags: emerging church, faith, friends, Jesus, Portland, prayer, songs |[3] Comments
Every morning for the last 2 1/2 years I have woken up with a song in my head. This song (different each day) is almost always a praise or worship song of some kind. If you know me you know that it is not because that is what I was listening to when I fell asleep. Sure, I occasionally listen to some Crowder or something, but to be honest, not all that often. But there it is EVERY morning. I have grown to interpret this as one of the assurances that someone is praying for me. At first I resisted, but now I find it encouraging.
The past two mornings a different song was in my head. “Hey little girl with the red dress on…” is how it begins. It’s a song I heard sitting in a stairwell at a rescue mission. One of the residents there had a guitar and was playing a few songs for me. This was not your average white guy with a guitar and a song. This was beautiful and incredible and real. Probaby the most powerful part of the songs were that I knew they came from real life, real pain, real joy, real Jesus. (more…)
