Minister Of Mocha

My hands rose to read the paper my heart sank. Fifty lives gone. My friends were safe, and I am thankful. We will certainly have arguments from both sides of a torn aisle in a divided country. We cannot fight to heal, we must hit our knees and… –Rise Up

Life is full of surprises. On Monday my plans for Sunday included church, football, and watching guys turn left at 200 MHP. What actually happened was I took my grandson to his first baseball game. My friend Don dropped by the RCA go! Studios during the week and brought me not just free baseball tickets,…

Christmas is a fun time of year. We get to sing the songs, open the gifts, see the family. All of those things are great. Oh yeah, there’s also that whole Jesus thing. This past week felt a little bit like Christmas in September. Last year at Christmas one of my daughters gave me tickets…

If you are a regular reader of this blog you may remember that I borrowed John Oliver’s “And Now This…” as a writing concept. Well, back to the same source for this one. Sometimes it’s a good idea to just stop and look at what just happened. I write on Monday mornings so I am…

If you attend RCA Church in Ridgecrest you know that is how I transition from the announcements to the sermon bumper. I like it a lot, but I stole the idea from John Oliver, who is just parodying old school TV News, so there you have it: I’m not original! That’s OK though, as Pablo…

In 1 Kings 18 we read about the weather, but more importantly we read about the whether! The prophet Elijah had told the people that God would bring a mighty rain and they laughed. Elijah was always going contrary to the world around him. He faced down 450 prophets for Baal in order to end…

Anyone else remember Weebles? Yeah, they wobble but they don’t fall down. I never had any, but always wanted them. I remember going into Fedco in Panorama City before Christmas back in the 70’s. They had a table out with lots of toys to try out. I was DETERMINED to get a Weeble to fall…

I spent four days being blown away and refreshed at the Celebrate Recovery Summit last week. It was amazing, and I am better today than I was last week before we left. I love pretty much everything about Summit. I love meeting new folks from near and far. I made friends with people from Kenya…

This has been a hectic week. And it's only Monday! Sometimes life just treats you that way. I was held accountable for things that I didn't really do earlier this week and it made people upset. I knew that they were upset, but didn't know why. After a few days of uncomfortable and awkward space…

I am learning that things don't always go as I had planned. Flights arrive late. Things break. Sometimes we read calendars wrong.Today it's the calendar. I had arranged to take a person to a doctors appointment out of town this morning. As I was backing out of the driveway he called to say that there…