• Arizona Trip 2022

    Arizona Trip 2022

    Just a photo dump from our trip. I really liked this trip. Maybe it was the timing. I didn’t think I needed it as much as I did. One of the first things we did was hike Camelback. It was quite a hike. Lots of scrambling needed. Most of my pictures are in the back…

  • A Better Way To Be Here

    A Better Way To Be Here

    It’s been about a week since I’ve been back from a one-week vacation in Arizona. I’ll post about that trip later… or at least a photo dump or something. It was so wonderful to be away. I don’t think I realized how much I needed to be away until I was finally away. While in…

  • Are You a Magician?

    Are You a Magician?

    A few weeks ago I started the M’Cheyne Bible Reading plan after learning about it in a class lecture and being inspired by our class discussion about spiritual disciplines to go ahead with it.[1] It’s four chapters a day, and if you stick with it, you end up reading through the OT once, the NT…

  • Gender Roles Short Circuit the Path to Self Knowledge

    Gender Roles Short Circuit the Path to Self Knowledge

    I had mentioned in a previous post how I had read and discussed Aimee Byrd’s Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood with the pastoral staff at my church. One of our early questions/critiques was that Byrd never defines what it means to be a man or a woman. Our initial discussion surmised that she did…

  • A Thought on Church Planting

    A Thought on Church Planting

    About a week ago, I attended a panel presentation/discussion on church planting. Actually… I’ve been attending this fellowship of local ministry people called QueensConnexus that is trying to create a community from which to plant churches in Queens; I’ve been joining their meetings for a few months now. I was always weary of joining such…

  • Chinese New Year Dragons!

    Chinese New Year Dragons!

    Look at these cool dragons that Steph made with the girls! Can you tell who made each one?