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After a blistering week of posting, I took a week off and did some contract work for a friend of mine who is a computer technician extraordinair here in PDX. If your ever in need of a hardware or software…

Psalm 116 and Communion……

You can’t go on ’seeing through’ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How…

For better or for worse, depending on your viewpoint, here is the latest from our legislature here in Oregon. What are your opinions, should we ban smoking in all bars?

Well, sometimes people in Salem do things a bit differently…

Well maybe not yet in Multnomah County, but down in Salem and judge has weighed in his verdict on exactly how close is, well, it doesn’t matter in his opinion… it is all free speech.

Why does church matter? Because ‘church’ names the people of God who make known God’s love for the world in Jesus Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit….First, I am convinced, with many others, that the good news of…

Warning: Rambling solipcistic post ahead! Be warned… We’re 3 years on in our church planting journey, and in a concerted effort to become less-curmudgeonly and actively stave off becoming a grumpy old man (hey, I turn 38 this year!) I’ve…

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served,…

In 1975 the Boston Red Sox were defeated by Cincinnati in the World Series. It was their second trip to the World Series since the curse of the Bambino began in 1919. Had I been old enough at the time to drive across the Morrison Bridge in 1975, I woul…