Contemporary Vicarious Worship
I’ve been thinking about issues of music and contemporary worship in church for years. I’m not a musician. I did play the piano and clarinet as a child but neither stuck. I’ve also been in several choirs over the years. But all in all, musically I’m not much different than the average church goer. But, […]
Thanksgiving when you aren’t feeling thankful
Yesterday, our Pastor preached a Thanksgiving message that relied heavily on the nostalgia of family holidays. I can certainly relate to that. As a child, holidays were a wonderful time. I remember Thanksgiving as a day spent happily with family and with a lot of food and discussion. By the time I reached high school, […]
Surviving a Trojan War
On Friday October 5th, 2018 Faith on View was attacked! I actually saw it happening. While I was on my computer, I saw a dramatic spike in activity on Google Analytics from a random town on the east coast of the United States. I didn’t think much about it until an hour or so later when […]
Conservative Christians are Missing the Point on Kavanaugh and Power
I’m a terrible blogger. As near as I can tell, one of the keys to blogging is having an opinion on every hot button issue and making it known. I certainly have had an opinion when it comes to the Brett Kavanaugh saga. But, I also haven’t felt like I’ve had anything unique to say […]
The most important thing a Dad can do for his kids.
I was married young… too young. To be honest, our relationship did not get off to a great start. I think most of the time when a couple marries at nineteen and has a child at twenty they are asking for things to be more challenging than they might have otherwise been. Still, in about […]
Faith on View Reborn
As most of the readers of Faith on View know, this blog is a project of love. It is something I am passionate about. But, it is also something that can get pushed to the side when life gets crazy. And… life has been crazy recently! I have also come to realize, though, how important […]
California Fires: Finding Beauty in the Animal Evacuations
Something Unexpected There were two weeks in October that didn’t go as I expected. On Monday, October 9th, my wife was following the developing Northern California fires online when she saw that they were woefully shorthanded at the large animal evacuation site near us. We decided to spend a few hours the next morning volunteering. […]
My Testimony…Hope Story…Why I believe.
If you have spent any time in the evangelical church you have heard people talk about sharing their testimony. If you don’t know what that means, a person’s testimony is basically their story of why they believe in God and what that has meant to their life. Some people have very dramatic stories about how […]
An Inauguration Prayer
Dear Lord, patient and forgiving Father, all-knowing God who sees our hearts even as we can’t, I pray for our country even as the inauguration of our 45th president, Donald Trump, is taking place. I pray that we would be a country of peace that seeks equality and justice for all without our borders. I pray […]
A Time for Faith on View
When I first started writing here at Faith on View, I wrote on the About page that one of my core values was transparency. I didn’t realize at the time that whether or not we should be transparent was actually a somewhat controversial idea. There are certainly dangers that transparency brings. You open yourself up […]