New Blog for a new year.

I’m back. I was just burnt out and had alot goin on in my life over the holidays. I have decided to start a new blog to start out the year. From now on you can check me out at Just a Broken Pilgrim. I explain why in more detail over there.  So if I [...]

How Do You Define Simple Faith in Christ

I ran across this Meme over at Kingdom Grace and felt moved to answer it. This meme was started by Gary at Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit.
How would you define simple faith in Christ?
Simple Faith in Christ means that even when…
I don’t feel His presence
I can’t see his touch in my life
I feel [...]

It Starts At Home

“The future of our movement may be less in convincing the established system that we are legitimate, and more so in showing our spouses and children that we represent a genuine alternative to the hypocrisy we ‘re frequently critical of. If emergent really is this generous spirit of change and hope, it should be obvious [...]

Blog Burn

Over the last month or so the frequency of my blogging has been steadily dropping. I just havent had the time or the will to do much writing. I have alot of stuff going on right now, and I have been struggling spiritually.  I have a couple of big posts floating around in my head and I [...]

Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak- How Should We Handle the Emerging Church?

James 1: 19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry
Rick McKinley  from Imago Dei has posted some great thoughts on the Emerging Church. I would suggest checking out the whole post. The Word that sticks in my head after reading it is [...]

The Streets of Circumstance

Upon the streets of circumstance
  Each day we meet a few
Who have no safe abiding place
  And dreams that won’t come true.
With heads held high, most pass them by
  Indifferent to their pain.
They hurry by and do not speak to
  Beggars in the rain.
As hands reach out, they turn away
 Pretending not to see
The broken hearts before [...]

Fishers of men (Part 3) Mending the Nets

Matthew 4:19
“Come follow me” Jesus said “and I will make you fishers of men”
In Part One I dealt with the fact that fishing involved a whole community, and in part two I looked at the training and preparation (discipleship) that was needed to become a professional fisherman.
In this post I just wanted to touch briefly [...]

10-20-30 Virus

 I was just tagged by Jonathan over at Missio Dei
Quick: What were you doing Ten, Twenty, Thirty years ago?
10 years ago: I had just got done doing a nine month stretch in the county jail. I had been living on the streets  I had just met my wife Jenny and was living with her and a couple of [...]

Fishers of Men (part 1) Community

 My wife and I attend a Bible study on Thursday night, our memory verse over the last few weeks has been Mathew 4:19 Come follow me, Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men. Of course I have heard and read this verse countless times, but this last Thursday that verse really came [...]

The Emerging Church -An Agent for Change or More Division?

  Prompted by a post by Jamie over (E)mergent Voyageurs entitled  ”Am I Really An Emerging Christian? – A Pre-Mature Conclusion” Jonathon Brink over at Missio Dei asks a great question. What are we emerging to? I think this is a great question, and one that I have been asking myself. But this brings up another [...]