• Christmas gifts and letters

    Practices take a long time to form, or break and so we are headed on the track of transforming the way we celebrate our savior’s birth.One thing we did this year, an idea I got from a co-worker, was to write each other a letter reflecting on our relationship over the past year…. Those reflections…

  • home for christmas

    Emily and I are staying in LA for Christmas this year, mainly because we couldn’t purchase tickets for before Christmas due to Emily’s work schedule and the price of tickets going out of LA the night before the sleigh touches down. At first glance this could be a sad occasion, and of course on the…

  • so today i am reborn.

    recently a friend who had a visit from the local JW’s (Jehova Witnesses) who were trying their hardest to convert her. I have never had this happened to me so I was enjoyed hearing the story and I looked through the magazine/devotional teaching tool they brought for her to read a magazine called the watchtower.…

  • Forming the People of God

    As I have finally finished my seventh quarter at Fuller, I begin a time of reflections about what I have learned and unlearned and all that in between. As I entered this qtr I was exhuasted, looking forward to a hopefully not-to-difficult 10 weeks of class work so that i could recover from the exhausting…

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    In response to E-money’s comment June 3, 2005: I appreciate the comment, and I agree with your interpretation of making disciples and sharing the Gospel as primary to following Christ, and that this involves following God, no matter the cost (John 21:18-19). This is of course what being a Christian means, to follow God before…