One Year with Jenna and what I have learned

  This week we celebrated Jenna Schnipper’s first birthday.  It seems a little surreal to be doing this, because time has flown by.  God blessed us with this little girl and in this year I think I have learned more about God, life, and myself then any other time.  Here are some of the things [...]

The Random Strangers I Trust

As I prepare a sermon on Isaiah 30 and the theme of trusting God, this got me thinking about the complete strangers I trust.  People like The Used Salespeople on amazon.com: I have never met any of these people yet I continue to buy stuff from them.  What makes it worse is that I judge [...]

The Perplexity of “Hello”

Tuesday I went for a walk with my daughter at a park that has a 1.5 mile paved loop.  At the beginning of the walk I passed someone that said, “hello” to which I responded “hi.”  As I was getting close to the end of my walk I passed the same person, we greeted each [...]