Take care then how you hear

On first reading of the Parable of the Sower recorded in Luke 8:4-18 (also Matthew 13:1-15 and Mark 4:1-12), it is easy for the Christian to externalize it and immediately consider oneself to be the good soil.  They can look at the other different types of soil (path, rock, and thorns) and immediately begin to [...]

Economize this!

Drive east on the I-90 from Seattle, over the Snoqualmie Pass, head north after Cle Elum, and take a left up the Teanaway River Road. Mount Stuart (pictured), Ingalls Peak, and Ingalls Lake are spectacular, as are the views south toward Rainier and Adams, and north up the Cascades to Glacier.
Spent Saturday in the [...]

Hey, uh, what are you guys doin?

When I first arrived in the United States, New Zealand was world-famous in this land of the free for one thing.  Lord of the Rings.  I had to struggle at times to get in my little “but-I-could-see-Mount-Fuji-on-The-Last-Samurai-out-my-bedroom-window-when-I-was-a-kid” line.  But that has changed, at least a little, with the Flight of the Conchords picking up their [...]