The end of an era

Tonight is the end of an era. This blog has run its course and as tonight is ended

Gran Torino

Christa still has 2 days before she and the kids come home, so I availed myself of the opportunity to go to another movie. This time it was' Gran Torin o' with Clint Eastwood.

What am amazing movie this is!!! If this is Clint's last acting role, as he has said it could be, what a way to go out. He very well may get the Oscar for Best Actor. At the ende of the movie I just sat there...stunned by thepower of the movie. So did most everyone else in the theater. Teh ending was completely unexpected, even by me who can usually sniff stuff like this out in movies.

Go see it.

Gilroy and Santa Cruz

I just got bck from an overnight business trip to Gilroy and Santa Cruz. I stayed last night at my mom's house. We went to see 'Frost/Nixon', which was just an amazing movie. Frank Langella should be a shoo-in for Best Actor at next year's Oscar's. Watching vit also makes me want to back and watch some of the original interviews with David Frost and Richard Nixon. After the movie Mom and I went back to her house, made crab cakes for dinner, drank Martinis and wtched Jeopardy.

Christmas is over

Here it is Dec 29. Christmas was pretty wonderful this year. We had some great family time with my family and then we traveled down to Southern California to see CHrista's paretns on the 26th (at 5 AM). I flew back yesterday because I had to work but Christa and the kids are stayng down there until Friday or so.

So I've got a few days to myself. Take down all the Christmas stuff, clean the house...relax and read. I miss my family but someties it's good to have a few days.

Holiday Greetings

HAPPY SOLSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You pagans happy now??????

Devils Lake

After all my ranting nd raving about this pastoral search and wondering what is going on, I get an email out of the blue from a church in Devils Lake, North Dakota, which is interested in talking to me about their Pastor of Discpleship position. Not exactly an ideal location, right???

I'm going to respond to them and talk to them, but I'm not putting anything else on hold for this. We're still going to start looking to move come January. Who knows if anything will happen with this church, and besides, what about the location? I'm tired of trying to figure out what God is doing

Post-Mammoth reflections

I've recevied a lot of suypportive emails since I posted yesterday about Mammoth and also sent an email out to a bunch of friends. My friend Matt had some interesting questions which I would like to vreflect on.

He asked me first about planting my own church. I've never thought of myself as a church planter. Being an evangerlist is not in my pastoral DNA as much as it is in some others. So I can't really seeing this happen in an intentional way. But there is always the chance that something like this could happen with God working on it and I being unaware of it. I think that vwith a little spiritual elbow grease George and I could have turned out Bible study in the late 90's into a church.

I donj't have a certain church size in mind. The Mammoth church was about 75 or so. There are probably a lot of smaller churches that are looking for pastors but there is always the issue (even though it should not be a reason to go into ministry) of whrther a church that size would bre able to pay enought for out family to live decently in the surrounding community.

I think perhaps that God might have something out there that I'm not contemplating (it ain't Orthodox, though...give it up ). I don't know what that might be. We're going to see what happens in the next couple of months as we begin to make preparations to rent out this house and maybe buy a bigger one elsewhere.