happy haiku friday!

sitting in my cube

lead me to a sacred space

pay sprint bill at lunch

and now for something completely different...

i just agreed to interview john eldredge on october 12. in order to prepare for the interview, john requested that i climb mount washington, canoe the snake river and run five miles of the appalachian trail stark naked. by the end of this experience, i'm going to be so wild. i am MAN, hear me roar!

longing to be stoic, yet so damn emotive

i have no desire to be tossed this way and that by every wave of emotion. but, in all honesty, i usually am. while this realization is nothing new, it is usually something i am able to suppress. but not today.

earlier this week, the only other home church in our network decided to officially disband. our personal relationship with the remarkable families and individuals in this church will continue, but their church will cease to exist.

thus, the network formerly known as 'city on a hill' will cease to exist. sinners and saints is on its own and it feels like we're performing on a trapeze and preparing to fly without a net. henri, at this point i would love to say that i am fully trusting the catcher, but it is far more accurate to say that i am filled with fear.

i am afraid that i am unable to lead a home church, much less create a new network.

i feel like at some point i stopped walking with you and started to work for you. hence, i hardly have the character that befits an elder.

i realize that you can, but fail to believe that you will, transform the dying seed that was 'city on a hill' into an organism that is glossy with new life.

yet, with trembling hands i receive the new task you have set before me. fill me with your Spirit, so that i might participate in, and help guide, a community that is engaged in your mission. once again, i ask you to bring life out of death and to call something that is not as though it were. Lord, i really don't want to fuck this up. help me, help me, help me.

avoiding work, yet still pimpin' product

last week i had the opportunity to interview doug pagitt of solomon's porch. we had the opportunity to talk about his excellent reimagining spiritual formation and converse in the strangelanguage that is emergent speak. in the off chance that you would find the interview interesting, you can access it by clicking here. i will also be interviewing brian mclaren in late october. i'll post the interview when it's complete.

also, if you haven't already noticed, i really enjoy reflecting on the experience of the sinners and saints community. if you find those posts interesting, you should check out dr. james' post entitled 'finding a place for jim grace.' props to the doctor for providing an eyewitness account to the resurrection.

monday morning musing

i awoke this morning to evidence of a weekend well spent. the body of evidence included:

• 1 completed novel


• 2 torn ticket stubs for the door in the floor


• a half painted study


• a half primed bookcase


• 4 x-box controllers strewn across the living room floor


• 1 partially read, but wholly dismembered sunday edition of the globe


• 1 reconciled relationship


• 2 empty bottles of wine


• 2 empty boxes of prinzi's pizza


• 10 empty bottles of sam adams' octoberfest


• 5 empty bottles of harp


• 3 empty bottles of mike's hard limeade

as i spent the morning hours carefully cataloging, and then dispatching of , the evidence, i realized how each piece points to the presence of our community. due to this realization, the act of collection became not merely a task, but an embodied prayer of thanksgiving.