This weekend we start Create a Ripple in worship. The best ripples are created by praying. So, I’ll be talking about prayer. One of the best nuggets of advice I have received is: “Go where your best prayers lead you.”…

My oldest son is looking at colleges and majors these days. Next year he’ll be at a school somewhere studying something. Don’t know where or what. One of the majors he is interested in is communication studies. I was looking…

I had a colleague ask me late last week how I was going to address the events in Washington D.C. during Sunday morning worship. I told her I wasn’t. My sermon on kindness was done. Got a baptism scheduled. Going…

Our #BeKind campaign concludes today. So you can stop being kind. Go back to envy, greed, anger, selfishness, or indifference. Or you can do something else. #DoKind. Doing kindness is a result of being kind. Being kind is who we…

A high school football player recently asked me if it’s possible to be a good football player and kind at the same time. My reply after thinking about the answer for precisely zero seconds: absolutely. The 1989 San Francisco 49ers…

Fall is my favorite season of the year. I love everything about it other than the morning sun on the westward drive and the whole thought about winter being around the corner. Otherwise everything about fall is great. Running through…

#BeKind starts this week at The Water’s Edge. Some equate kindness to being polite or nice. Like holding a door open for somebody or saying “thank you” or not confronting somebody over something trivial. Those are all pretty mundane virtues…

Oregon was the first state to recognize it in 1887. It became a federal holiday in 1894. Always the first Monday in September, Labor Day recognizes the contributions and achievements of American workers. It means something different today than it…