How many of you ran to your windows this morning, cranked them open, and listened to the rain?!? For some of us, we had to wait a bit,...

This Sunday, if you get a chance to come to worship at Bear Creek UMC, you are in for a powerful moment of wonder and question by our...

This Sunday my church, Bear Creek UMC, is beginning a 4-week worship theme celebrating a Jesus who “gets us” and calls us to “get...

I have had some amazing moments of joy in my life. Kissing the love of my life for the first time! Making a half-court shot in a...

(This Weekend, I am officiating the marriage of Sam McBride (my son) and Lui Ying (Iris). This is the reflection I am sharing. The...

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the biblical concept of Jubilee these days. Mainly because we are using this theme for our...

I have a confession for you: I am blind as a bat! Let me explain. For most of you, the picture I have posted with this blog post has a...

In some senses I have no right even writing about this topic, especially as I am writing it on my “technical” day off! (Yes, I have...

Scripture: And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with songs[c] and lyres and harps and tambourines and...

Yesterday I made it home from a 4-day stint as Camp Pastor for an elementary camp at Camp Indianola and my first question to Cyndy was,...

Can you give me permission to rant a bit? Today’s news brings an interesting article about a 5-year-old who was allegedly removed from...

Working our VBS and hanging out with your wonderful children and grandchildren all week, was so amazing, that it triggered a memory....

I was out visiting Harry and Anna Culbreth yesterday. A wonderful couple whose center just emotes the love of Christ. And as I left their...

A year and 1/2 ago, Cyndy and I decided to bite the bullet and get another dog. It wasn't an easy decision. Our dog of 14 years, Sugar,...

I’ve been thinking lately about how wonderful it is to have someone just get you. Someone who understands what makes you tick and isn’t...

In the Christian world, one of the big debates as of the last one hundred years is concerning which way we are falling. Conservatives...

I’m a little slow to respond on this one, I know. But sometimes I just need some time to grieve and process just everything that has...

Last week Cyndy and I went home to South Dakota. It’s been 6 years now since we moved out to the Seattle area to be close to our...

In a novel I’m reading, “Peace Like a River” by Leif Enger, one of the characters, the dad, says that no matter what stage in life we are...

Have any of you ever read John Green? His podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed is one of my favorites. But he’s also a wonderful author....