Month: June 2017

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church, April 30, 2017) I’ve been reading and praying the Psalms often lately. I’m grateful for these prayers, songs, poems… these expressions of worship that have been used by faith communities for thousands of years. They model what I need. They …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on April 16, 2017) Several years ago, I read the book “Boys in the Boat”.  I already knew the ending, because somebody had told me these University of Washington rowers won Olympic gold in 1936 (sorry if I just …

(Message given at Newberg Friends Church on April 9, 2017) We all have good days, and we all have bad days. Sometimes what looks like a good day on the outside, by the circumstances, by what people see…sometimes what looks like a good day is more …