I can’t say my holiday season has been terribly overwhelming this year. I’m mostly on top of presents. We had our big birthday party over the weekend (three of four kids born in December can get complicated), and other family gatherings too. We’re busy with a variety of events and activities. It’s not a...
Category: Engage: Faith
Engage Faith: Like One Who is Unclean
On Sunday during church, I read Isaiah 64:6. I’ve read it dozens of times before. I know I memorized it in Awana, back in the day. But on Sunday, it stuck out to me. The pastor read Isaiah 64 as the Advent text. But while the sermon focused on other things, I kept coming...
Engage Faith: Almost Empty
Our church runs the sound system from an iPad. Mostly Mike does it, but when he’s not there Pastor Geoff does. But yesterday, Eric ended up with it. It was an unusual service, one our church calls “multi-voice.” Which basically means that multiple people share about a topic or give a testimony. And yesterday,...
Contempt
I was sitting with my family in the studio waiting for our portrait sitting. Everything was running late and I had to be somewhere in barely an hour. The room was filled with people, and I silently blamed all of them as I watched the clock hands creep toward my deadline. I tried to...