Minister Of Mocha

I went to prison on Saturday. I was all set to meet “the guys” doing CR there. Weeks of anticipation, no years of anticipation were about to be ended as my new journey began. I drove across the miles of empty desert and listened to worship music, trying to prepare my heart and soul for…

(This one is for a lot of you dedicated readers, but a special thanks to Bob…) I’m a child of the 80’s. For those of you old enough to remember I want to draw your attention back to a song by C+C Music Factory – “Things That Make You Go Hmmm”, all you youngsters can…

Do you ever feel like you’re living in a book? Sometimes life seems to be a mundane parade of days. Then there’s those times where all I can think is “This would be a great book if anyone believed it!” My friend just had that week. I told you a little about it last week…

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.…