Hitchhiker’s bLOG – 2020.01.21

Let’s try something… I am in a particularly busy season as I help my son move. (Yes, Peter got the job!) So being able to sit at a computer or iPad and bang out Hitchhiker bLOGs is difficult when one wants to look at apartments and handling logistics online to help him on his Search […]

Hitchhiker’s bLOG – 2020.01.16 (UPDATED! 2020.01.18)

twins! It was Sunday after a week off; lots of moving parts and post-sermon brain, and certain details get overlooked. The next day, I receive an email from SangriaBoy with a picture, with the suggestion that it might be blog worthy. He was right. How could I have missed this!?!? I know; the resemblance is […]

Something to Think About – 2020.01.17

Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud […]

Something to Think About – 2020.01.10

…but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:15-16 ‘I love the Greek language as it is so precise and full of meaning. For instance, today’s scripture uses the word “the” translated here […]

Hitchhiker's bLOG – 2020.01.07

I am a rule follower by design… But I sometimes let rule-following get in the way of my journey in the crosswalk of Christian faith. Example: Last week, while I was taking “The Monster Behind the Door” for his morning constitutional, I witnessed the same somebody entering a parking lot through the exit that is […]

Something to Think About – 2020.01.03

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age… Titus 2:11-12 The passage the good folks from biblegateway.com give us this morning comes from Paul as he reminds the first-century church about […]

Hitchhiker’s bLOG Supplemental – 2020.01.01

My friends, I bid you life and prosperity in 2020! Or in those wonderful words from my favorite first officer: “Live Long and Prosper.” Happy New Year!