Let Us Never Forget

September 11, 2011.Reading time 28 minutes.

What follows is a text version of my sermon on the 10th Anniversary of September 11th. (also an audio version) It’s now several years later, but this still sums up nicely my feelings on every new September 11th. Hope it’s helpful to you…EF Ten years ago this morning, on the Sunday following September 11th, […]

Christmas Snow (A New Song)

September 6, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Posted this new song to FB Friday afternoon, but thought I’d put it out on the blog today. Another new song, this one instrumental. Somehow, when I heard it, I just thought “snow.” Thus, the title. (Could also be that it was our last 100 degree day too…) Hope you like it…

The Struggle of Weariness and Hunger Together (Labor Day 2011)

September 5, 2011.Reading time 26 minutes.

“…How many are there in this Christian country that toil, and labor, and sweat, and have it not at last, but struggle with weariness and hunger together? Is it not worse for one, after a hard days labor, to come back to a poor, cold, dirty, uncomfortable lodging, and to find there not even the […]

It’s All About the Math

September 1, 2011.Reading time 3 minutes.

This is what I’ve known about “Fantasy Football” for a while now. It’s all about the math. If you want to win, it’s not about drafting players from your favorite pro team, or favorite college team. It’s about which players put up the most consistent numbers. I won our league last year, on the back […]

At Least

August 30, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

I want to get up early one more morning,before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold water on my face and be at my work tablewhen the sky lightens and smokebegins to rise from the chimneys of the other houses. I want to see the waves break on this rocky beach, not just hear thembreak as I […]

Changing (A New Song)

August 24, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

Really happy with the song I just finished. Unlike other recent ones, I’m not uploading a YouTube. This one really only works with the production…I heard it/wrote it as it is here. (It may take a minute for the file to load…) It just might be the world’s only song inspired by Process Theology. Hope […]

A Sermon Series: The Glory of God’s Creation

August 16, 2011.Reading time 5 minutes.

This blog entry consolidates all of the sermons from Northaven’s summer “Creation” series one place. If you’ve got some time to spend, click on the links below, and enjoy what we’ve been enjoying here at Northaven this summer. The first two are audio-only. Many of the last ones are video.* As the series concludes over […]

August 16, 2011.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Here’s last Sunday’s video sermon on Creation and Science. Be patient and, theoretically, this playlist should play parts one and two automatically. If you wait a few moments, and Part 2 doesn’t start, you can click on a link at the end of part one to access part two. Hope it’s helpful to you. Please […]

Where Everything Is Music

August 15, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

Don’t worry about saving these songs!And if one of our instruments breaks,it doesn’t matter. We have fallen into the placewhere everything is music. The strumming and the flute notesrise into the atmosphere,and even if the whole world’s harpshould burn up, there will still behidden instruments playing. So the candle flickers and goes out.We have a […]

Icarus Ascending

August 12, 2011.Reading time 2 minutes.

Soaring alone upon a threatening windJust fix your eyes on the horizonCut off from everything you’ve known or have beenI shouldn’t think it’s so surprisingSpiraling upward on a freshening liftReaching the realms of fleet ApolloYou have been given the most sacred of giftsYou must be fearless now and follow Don’t look down, Though your heart […]