Fly Fishing Nor Cal
I specialize in fly fishing from a drift boat on the Lower Sacramento or wading the Upper Sacramento RiverNorthern California has some of the best fly fishing in the United States without the crowds that many of the rivers in Montana, Colorado, and Alaska attract. With year-round fisheries for trout, steelhead, striper, and more, it’s hard to imagine a better location for those who love fly fishing!
If you want to get out, you can book me through Confluence Outfitters.
Gossip+: The New Social Networking Method
People can be really frustrating to deal with. You know it, and I know it. I spend the vast majority of my time talking to people and hanging out with people and one thing is for sure: at times we all find people frustrating. And for some reason, all of that...
Have You Met Any Angels Lately?
"Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares" (Heb. 13:1-2) Whenever I read this verse, I picture it being read out loud with an east coast accent. The word "unawares" just simply...
The Missional Spirit Breaks Ecclesiological Monologue!
"What if the life-giving Spirit is saying to us that nothing has gone wrong but that he is breaking apart the five-hundred-year-old boxes in which we have so conveniently placed the movement of God since the European Protestant reformations? What if the period we are...
Joshua’s Spiritual Warfare, by Thomas B. Clarke
One of the most important skills that one should acquire with theological training is with reading and interpreting and applying Scripture. This largely boils down to asking the right questions about the text and making a lot of good observations. And as you spend...
An even-handed “third way” between Piper and Wright: Michael F. Bird’s JETS contribution
Yesterday my copy of the latest JETS came in the mail and I was pleasantly surprised to find an article by Michael J. Bird - "What is There Between Minneapolis and St. Andrews? A Third Way in the Piper-Wright Debate" (pp. 299-309). It is one of the most engaging...
When it comes to missions, where should our commitment be?
My wife and I were talking about missions and discussing how different people have a lot of different opinions on who or where we should place our "mission priorities." Some people seem to think we should put 100% of our focus towards third world countries and...
The Emotional Aspect of Worship
Today I spent some time reading through a few select psalms and found a recurring concept that really struck me as quite normative for NT Christianity. Before I lay that theme out, let me tell you why it struck me as so important. I've heard a lot of Evangelicals say...
Healthy, Spirit-directed Churches Grow
"We are convinced that healthy, Spirit-directed Churches grow. And we believe that God grows the Church. If we feel we have to grow the Church, we will fall into humanism-it ceases to be God's Church and becomes our Church. So our approach is to do the basics and do...
“We were cheap marketing!”
Tim Challies has an interesting post concerning Rob Bell's Love Wins and the connected storm of controversy that spread throughout conservative Evangelical circles. His blog post (Hell, Bell, and What We Did Well) suggests that the Reformed community was played by...
Daniel Tomberlin’s book on Pentecostal Sacraments has arrived!
If last week you had told me that I'd be finding a book on the Sacraments by a Pentecostal scholar, I would have probably laughed and thought you were crazy. Those two subjects are mutually exclusive, right? Wrong. I just received (thanks to my wife!) Daniel...
