Minister Of Mocha

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  • One of “Those” Days…

    Have you ever had one of those days? I certainly have, and I’m guessing that you have as well. Heck, sometimes it feels like EVERY day is one of THOSE days, doesn’t it?!? There are just so many things that come at me from all directions it just makes me want to throw in the…

  • Visitors

    So this last week at Celebrate Recovery was pretty neat. My week was rolling along like a pretty standard week: I put up my blog, I wrote my lesson, I practiced my music, I talked about the menu with Chef Jenny…oh yeah, we saw Barry…but aside from that it was kind of business as usual.…

  • Ships

    So tomorrow night I am taking my lovely wife to a concert…we are going to see Barry Manilow. Now before you judge, let me say this: the man can write catchy songs and I’ve been told that he puts on an amazing show, so we are going to see his farewell tour. So I’m listening…

  • Easter Eggs

    Once again, Easter has come and gone. Easter is a time of many things to many people. For some people it’s a week off of school. For some people it’s the culmination of a Holy Week. For some people it’s the end of March Madness. For some people it’s a sugar rush like no other.…

  • Walking Dead

    As I write this another season of “The Walking Dead” has concluded and the new season of “The Walking Not-Dead-Anymore” begins. This is Holy Week, and even though recent trends have played down the events and happenings of the week between Palm Sunday and Easter I think it is still important to recognize the importance…

  • Are we recording…? Is this thing on? Ooops!

    So as you may or may not know, we record our Friday night services from CR at RCA Church. I like to put them on our UStream channel so that in case people are out of town, or sick, or just shy they can still check out some worship and a lesson or testimony. I…

  • Loving People

    Wow, the folks I run into sometimes just make me scratch me head and wonder… I’m sure you’ve experienced that too. It can be easy to sit in a crowded mall or at Starbucks and people watch, adding my own commentary about what people are doing or wearing. I bet most of us have seen…

  • The Numbers Game

    Like a lot of Americans, I have had my phases of fascination with movies about the mafia. Plenty of us have seen “Goodfellas” or “The Godfather”. I was always trying to figure out what they meant when they talked about “running numbers”. So as I got older and “wiser” I found out more about what…

  • Rainy Days and Mondays…

    You may be familiar with the song that says “rainy days and Mondays always get me down”. Great song, but a horrible message. Personally I love the rain. Perhaps it’s because I grew up as a desert rat in Ridgecrest. Or perhaps it’s because it refreshes and renews everything. One of my favorite songs we…

  • One more year! One more year! One more year!

    So we hear the “Four more years” chant with politicians all the time. I was thinking about that as I added another candle to my own birthday count. Our regular birthdays and our recovery birthdays are just ways to keep track of the calendar. The beautiful thing is that I am made new every day.…