Author Archives: asacredrebel

Do you have your d-min? Are you ready to exercise your d-min? This conference is interesting… and seems to be a little bit more of a networking… I have had a lot of really good conversations. I do miss my family, my girls, and my wife. I look forward to seeing them and welcoming ourContinue reading “D-min…”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in prayer in Letters and Papers from Prison: You have granted me many blessings;Now let me also accept what is hard from your hand.You will lay on me no more than I can bear.You make all things work together for good for your children. This came from a session on understanding theContinue reading “What are you in love with…”

Well it is the evening of day 2… the things I have in my PalmPilot for notes is… We should & could ourselves to death “Hiper than thou“ inoculation to reality What does this tell us about ministry…How can we be ministers when we think that everything is works righteousness? We need to get overContinue reading “Packers Fan”

What does it mean to do ministry in this postmodern era??? What does it mean to be a pastor in this era??? Is it better to have a conference with carnies, or the casket company?Does it say more about us that we are here with Circus workers or a casket company? Does it show theContinue reading “In the Hot Tub with Carnies”

Here we are in Orlando…. Day one down. And I need to reflect on extraordinary audacity… And what does it mean to be real radical renditionists for God. We need to grab hold of that which is real. That which will ground us. That which will help us wade in the waters. That which willContinue reading “Extraordinary audacity”

Alright it is 5:20 AM and I am getting ready to leave for the airport for Orlando for theCreative Ministries gathering of the ELCA… My wife is due in 8 days, I am a liitle bit on edge, and wondering why I am doing this… Let us see where this journey takes us!

Well isn’t life grand. We are in a place that is good, the house finally sold, and we are ready to welcome the third child into the world, and the van… Have mentioned the van to any of you. The longed after vehicle that will allow the five of us to go place as aContinue reading “Skuballa happens…”

Aren’t relationships grand!!! They have their own beings and breath and live a life all there own. We get the great pleasure of taking part in them. Sometimes they are pluses to our lives and sometimes they drain us of everything we have. They are joys to us and they truly sometimes are pains inContinue reading “Relationship Wanderings…”

As I ponder the realativities of life and love and completion of assignment papers, I wonder if I have presented myself correctly. I wonder if I really know what I am getting myself inot with wanting to do mission development? Am I crazy, or truly gifted? Do I really want to put myself and myContinue reading “Second guessing…”

Sometimes I wonder what leads me to do the things that I do. I wonder how we can without thinking be so inhuman, so threatening, so out of control. I wonder if thinking realy changes this? I wonder how our being claimed by God as the children of the Kingdom, co-inheritors with Jesus Christ, andContinue reading “Why are we so stupid?”