Living and Teaching Stories Rooted in the Mission of God
Thanks to the generosity of a close friend, my family got to get away this week for a much needed few days of downtime up in Big Bear, CA. We are staying in a sweet little condo with a full kitchen, fireplace and patio. Janny and I came up for a weekend retreat I was …
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10+ years ago I saw an incredibly attractive woman standing in the popcorn line at the movie theater. Four years later that same woman became my wife and six years after that she became the mother of our baby girl, Ruby. Today is Valentine’s Day, yet I write this in a small hotel room on …
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I love Costa Rica. It could be the perfect chest high surf or the tropical rains or the endless wild fruits that you can pull from trees and eat as breakfast on the go. It is all of those things (and much more!). But in order to fully appreciate all those brilliant realities, one must …
Just because we are back in Santa Cruz doesn’t mean we have stopped processing our time in Israel and Palestine. In fact, our time shattered and expanded our worldview is such a way that will force us to continue processing and wrestling through the experiences and stories for along time to come. Our time in …
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Shalom from the Land Between! Well, we have fallen hopelessly behind in our blogging, which would have been impossible to keep up at the pace of this course. The class has come to an end (seemed to go SO fast!), but we are able to stick around for a few days and take a few …