A fellow Calvary Chapel pastor has started a blog called “Simple Minded Preacher. I put a link to it on the left so it will always be there. Here is a link to it as well. The gist of the thing is to address all kinds of stuff. Emergent/Emerging church, happenings/thoughts on CC, pretty much [...]

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Check this out. At 10:40am on 1/23 it was beautiful. Your milage may vary.http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/This is our lovely little volcano called Mt. St. Helens. It’s about a 40 mile drive down the highway from our house. Truly a wonder! A great testament to God’s creation and the results of a catastrophe declaring the glory of God. [...]

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(Trumpets: doo do do dooooo) I have been appointed the new pastor of the Calvary Chapel in Forest Grove, OR. Yikes! I wasn’t even LOOKING for it, and there it is. In another post I will chat a bit about calling and what I have learned what it means to be called. It isn’t what [...]

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Man. This blog thing among pastors and is really taking off. I’ve gotten lazy. I gotta get back on the horse. As a part of that effort I gave the site a face lift. You like? I will try to be more regular. That is, more regular with the blog stuff. (You never know who [...]

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I wonder how many blog entries have the subject/title of “Insomnia”? That’s one of the many things I’ve been lying awake thinking about. One of the bummers of being so introverted is that you internalize so much. In other words, you don’t think things through out loud, you think them through in your head. When [...]

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