Journal

Here is where I see God in the ordinary, the mundane, the everyday.
These are the things I am noticing today.

  • When Life is Blurry

    There’s a strange healing tucked into Mark 8. A blind man is brought to Jesus, and Jesus puts His hands on him and asks, “Do you see anything?” The man looks up and says,…

  • Protected: The Big Yellow Dog

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  • The Method or the Source?

    Recently, while reading Mark 7, I noticed something about the way Jesus heals people: He doesn’t seem to have a method. In this chapter alone, a Gentile woman comes to Jesus because her daughter…

  • Learning to Play

    This morning, while reading Mark 6, I noticed something about the disciples I hadn’t paid much attention to before. They’re participating. Up until this point, they’ve spent a lot of time watching Jesus. They’ve…

  • In tune

    In tune

    “O Lord, do good to those who are good, whose hearts are in tune with you.”—Psalm 125:4 NLT This week, our reading plan has taken us through the Songs of Ascent—the psalms sung by…

  • What Are You Hungry For?

    The big question Proverbs 23 asks is: What are you hungry for? The chapter talks about food, wealth, alcohol, and discipline, but underneath it all is one theme: don’t let your appetites master you.…

  • 7 Lessons I’ve Learned from Running 1,000 Days

    Well, here we are. 1,000 days ago, I decided to start running every day. In the running streak world, Day 1,000 is called “comma day,” because you finally get a comma in your number.…

  • June 1

    Celebration is paying attention and calling attention to the goodness of God in my right-now life. Today I woke up and met my running group for a 5K run. The sky was still quiet,…

  • 60 Days

    Today kicked off our church’s summer series: 60 Days of Enjoying God and the Life He’s Giving You. Throughout the summer, we will be practicing celebration — paying attention and calling attention to the…