Wandering with Reckless Abandon

Reading through Monday Morning Insight today I read this about Mad Church Disease.
As I read through the post, I could not help but identify with what it was saying about the similarities between Mad Cow Disease and burnout in the ministry world. While I am excited by the fact that someone [...]

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On 26 June 2007 Bill Reiter passed away due to complications related to a seizure. Bill was my friend and a worship leader for Fusion while I served at Pascack Bible Church. Bill was an artist who truly reveled in Christ, never more so than when he was leading worship or creating art. [...]

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It has been an interesting week, uniquely intertwined.
This past Sunday we had a guest speaker (Mike Donohue) at church… Preaching about rejection, he used this passage of scripture:
31 When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 32 Leah became pregnant and gave [...]

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A small handful of people knew that I had been in looking at a Youth Pastor job at a church in the area.
A month ago, I interviewed, and was told that I should expect to hear back from the church later in the week. In a follow up email, I was told [...]

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My grandmother passed away last night.
I am trying to see if I can change my travel arrangements to get home and help with the preparations….

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So this morning I woke up thinking about the difference between this year and last.
Last year at this time I was hitting bottom. I was depressed (not yet on paxil), disillusioned, and uncertain of my future. I knew that things were broken and wrong, and I was not allowed to influence [...]

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I remember back in the late eighties(?) watching an Orioles game when Billy Ripken, the lesser known Ripken, was up to bat. Up until that point Billy had been a serviceable second baseman that was gaining in reputation around the league. During his at bat Billy took a ball to the head (I [...]

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So, apparantly my resume is being considered for a church, somewhere (I honestly do not remember where), and they sent me the typical church questionaire… As I was reading through it, everything seemed normal until I got to this question:
Is there anything in your life or life-style, past or present, which, if it were [...]

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