Minister Of Mocha

My friend is headed to speak at a national convention this week. She’s an amazing pastor, an amazing leader, and an amazing friend. I’ve spent time with her over the past few weeks helping to polish her presentation. We looked at data and created a lot of fun graphics. It was a blast and she…

So this blog gets written from the road this week. This morning I dropped my wife off at LAX airport so that she could go to Hawaii. What a great way to have an anniversary! Well, I guess it would be great if we got to spend it together, but that’s not in the plans.…

I had a friend go to court today. No, wait, it was a good thing. Several years ago their life had spun out of control and was headed for disaster. With time, sober living, and a whole lot of Jesus this walking wreck is now a model of redemption. I had a talk with them…

So this weekend was our last planned trip to hockey for the season. Early in the year we bought a 3 game mini-plan. We wound up buying tickets for one other game as well as getting free tickets to two other games. You never know what’s going to happen when you go to a game,…

It doesn’t happen often in Ridgecrest, but this Sunday it did: we had fog! I came in to church early in the morning. Being the first day of Daylight Savings Time the sun was just brimming on the horizon at 6:30. We had rain the day before, so everything was wet and clean. Driving in…

This weekend I make a trip I hadn’t taken in just over 16 years. I went to prison. I’ve been trying to get involved in prison ministry since I got out on Feb 19 of 2002. It’s been a tough trial of rejection because of my past. The miracle came through about a month ago…

One of the hardest things I do each week is trying to narrow down the past week to one thing for the blog. I knew there would be stuff with my birthday that would fit. I knew I could count on “life” to come in and give me material. I was right on both accounts.…

We took a CR road trip this weekend. There was an opportunity to present “CR Sunday” at our sister campus in Lone Pine and we all jumped. And the Enemy pounced. I was so excited to have the opportunity to share our ministry with the people in Lone Pine. I’m admittedly biased, but I think…

This weekend I saw an amazing play. It is the second play in the “Elliot Trilogy” and is called Water by the Spoonful. I was encouraged to see it based on my recovery background and all that I knew going in was that it had to do with addiction and recovery. In 25 years of…

I was not alone in watching the Super Bowl last night. Despite the “fake news” from DC about people not watching the NFL this was the 9th highest rated Super Bowl broadcast. Being a Steelers fan I was decidedly against the Patriots. I just don’t like those guys. There are lots of reasons, but if…