Summer in Indiana often brings with it the inevitable summer storm and following power outages for hours. One would think we would have prepared for this eventuality, and it has come up many times in discussion, but so far we have not made the plunge and purchased a generator. It would be nice to have…
Author: Joshua
Small Spaces, Bigger Vision
Life has been a blurry flurry of weeks rolling on by since we moved from the GHC. We set up the new office and IHOPMichiana, and even an office for our bookkeeper, copy room and a little break/briefing room. It’s amazing how much you can get into a little space. Then a few storefronts down…
Reflections on Dad and Manhood
I was thinking about Father’s day and manhood and all the stuff that is being done to try and promote “masculinity” and “being a man” in our culture today. I don’t have anything against it, but I think the way to learn to be a man is to have a father who is one. And…
For
And I am in the midst of this chapter now – Chapter 5 – “For” “Gospel is the shocking, provocative, revolutionary, subversive, counterintuitive good news that in your moments of greatest despair, failure, sin, weakness, losing, failing, frustration, inability, helplessness, wandering, and falling short, God meets you there- right there- right exactly there- in that…