If you are near “The Original Pancake House” on Kapiolani Boulevard in Honolulu, and are really hungry for the best thing you have ever tasted, order the Apple Pancakes. Bring a friend… it is enormous. The best way I can describe it is an apple pie turned inside out. A big, gooey mass of thin-sliced … Read more
H.L. Mencken is credited with saying that the journalist had two responsibilties: to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. I really think that is not the journalist’s, but the pastor’s role. We focus much of out time comforting the afflicted. Sitting in hospital waiting rooms -(the ministry of presence)- walking beside families through … Read more
While I find Jon Stewart snarky and sarcastic, Colbert is funny. REAL funny. This clip is Colbert at his finest… http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/224128/april-09-2009/b…
I read a lot. Some of it is occupational: Pastors seem to collect books by the box, and I am no exception. The shelves in my office are several deep with books and it looks really messy. I also read for education, as I am back in school, working on my Masters at Fuller Seminary. … Read more
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Now and then we must take time to break from our routine and stop to smell the roses… or the salty ocean breezes in my case.
If you said those words to your spouse, your marriage would be in serious trouble. In an intimate relationship, our love and affection for one another is most often expressed in various forms of bodily contact. So why do so many people who claim to love Jesus reject contact with his body, the church? Yes, … Read more
Serving as a Pastor is an ongoing education. Some days are filled with delightful discoveries, others with doubts, disappointments and despair. Here are a few random thoughts about what I have learned, and am learning: Friends are Friends forever is mostly a song title. Those people who are your close friends? The ones who called … Read more
Okay, all you pastors who might read this: fess up. If you have been at this for a while, you’ve seen a bunch of Easters come and go, and you’ve told the Resurrection story each year as best you can. Maybe it’s just me, but, Easter and Christmas always cause sermon writer’s block. I read … Read more