Minister Of Mocha

If you’ve been reading this blog for years you might pick up on the fact that I seem to write about birthdays in late February. That might have something to do with me sharing a birthday with George Washington. So here we are again, the week after Valentine’s Day and I’ve got birthdays on my…

I spend a fair amount of time considering where power comes from in life. I know that I can trust God to give me the strength I need to make it through each day. I know that I can plug a cord into a wall socket and the electricity will flow. Most of the time……

I heard last week that a lot of people got the wrong information when they did a web search for the Super Bowl. It seems that in the haste of flying thumbs and fingers the space got transposed so there were an inordinate number of searches for “Superb owl”. It’s a pretty understandable mistake and…

Each Saturday I follow a predictable pattern; I wake up and watch some soccer, I have some breakfast with my wife, then I leave to go to the prison for my CR Inside Group. I’m always really blessed to be there and it is always a pleasure to see the men who attend. This week…

I’ve spent the last week traveling about in the great north west corner of our nation. My daughter recently accepted a job in Utah and needed to retrieve her things from storage in Portland. Daddy to the rescue! I hopped on a plane last Tuesday and headed up to get said belongings and truck. One…

Recently I have been trying to collect funds to purchase a car for my prison ministry. The car I have is great, but it gets relatively bad gas mileage and with all of the volunteer driving I do for the prisons, I wanted to find something more economical. I did the whole gofundme.com campaign and…

The “holidays” have come and gone. My week between Christmas and New Year was predictably busy and culminated with a fantastically awesome New Year’s Eve Bash at CR. It was all very tremendous. And then I got sick. It may have been a let down after all of the commotion, or perhaps someone at the…

This past week I was blessed with free tickets to see my favorite hockey team. The blessing continued when I was able to get a ride to the game from a different friend. This was going to be a completely free game for me. Two of my favorite things in one swell foop: free and…

Yeah, it sounds wrong, but I’ve got evidence. Let me back track a bit an explain. My wife left me… OK, that’s not exactly right either; let me cut through the nonsense. My daughter wanted to sent my wife and I back to visit the family in Tennessee for Christmas. I wasn’t able to be…

In my 50-some years on this lovely planet I have had the privilege of participating in a wide array of activities. I like to think that I am a fairly well rounded individual, but this weekend I did something new – I performed at an open mic. It was a last minute kind of thing.…