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Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire
One of my struggles has always been feeling like I am misunderstood.  As such, I had developed a propensity to over-explain to in effort to reduce being misunderstood. I have worked over the years to reduce the need to over-explain and I’m making good progress. But sometimes there’s a snag. Sometimes the odd person, often…
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Finding Community along the Beautiful Way

Finding Community along the Beautiful Way
For at least the last decade many have been sensing a new reformation taking shape. It started to be a fairly broad critique of what manifests as institutional forms of church and the nature of its structures. Much has been written on this issue and we have seem a steady exodus from western institutional forms of church regardless of stripe.
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Heaven in Hell’s Despair

Heaven in Hell’s Despair
“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” -William Blake, from The Clod and the Pebble Love is the primary element in the alchemy of the Beautiful Way. It is the creative, restorative force that enlivens and sustains…
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The Hum of the Creating Heart

The Hum of the Creating Heart
It turns out that hum I hear in my head may be something more than the hamster on the wheel!  Can you hear it? Can you hear the hum, the electromagnetic hum of molecules as they interact in all things?  It’s not something we can hear audibly (but I suspect we can intuit), and yet…
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Healing through Love

Healing through Love
"Hurt people, hurt people."  Have you ever heard this saying? We all can recall a time when we have been on the receiving end of a hurting person, and truth be told, there are probably a few occasions where we have been the person doing the hurting.  When we don't deal with our hurt and…
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Bruised and Broken? God has a Plan for You!

Bruised and Broken? God has a Plan for You!
Thornton Wilder's play, “The Angel that Troubled the Waters” is based on the story found in John 5:1- 5 with an interesting twist. The play tells the story of a doctor who visits the pool of Bethesda in hopes that he could be the first in the water when the angel appears and troubles the…
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The Great Find – Self-Discovery

The Great Find – Self-Discovery
One of the greatest adventures that many undertake is the journey of discovering who they really are as a person.  Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, said that the unexamined life is a waste of life itself but what does this really mean?  After all, we know what we like, what we think ... don't we?…
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Gifts,Talents, and Christian Community

Gifts,Talents, and Christian Community
Cultivating Christian community has been a wonderful journey for our Amadeo community. We have let go of some things that we think have been unhelpful to vibrant Christian community. We have picked a few of those things up again for a time and a purpose - and then laid them aside again. While this has…
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Love Wins (1 Cor. 13:8)

Love Wins (1 Cor. 13:8)
I am amazed how the perfect love of God works in and through His good creation but have been surprised at the reaction of some folks.  These sincere people get concerned that when we talk about love, it must be at the expense of truth.   They suspect love is different than truth as if the truth…
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The Art of Non-Evangelism

The Art of Non-Evangelism
 Have you ever realized that you just seem to do certain things well but they seem to come so easily you take them for granted?  I had this pointed out to me in a couple areas of my life - things that I just did - I thought they were no big deal but I…
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