My highlights for worship this Christmas included:

All of my family helping me with the light video
Talli working with me on a Christmas worship station video
Getting to lead worship with both Hayley and Talli at our Christmas Eve service, as the three of us took the flame from the Christ candle to others in the room
Sharing [...]

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…but this beats workin’ any day. Up in Washington visiting my family for an early Christmas, and my brother took me way out on the Olympic Penninsula to fish for steelhead on the Bogachiel River. He planned where to go, gave me [...]

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Yesterday was the first time I shared the message at NFC for several weeks. One of the traditional advent themes is Jesus as the light of the world, and that served as our theme in worship yesterday.
My sharing started with this video:

Afterward, I spoke these words. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I spoke the [...]

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Just a quick blog post to point you to our church website, where our conversation with Andy and Marta, as well as Andy’s sharing in worship last week, led to a page of gift giving ideas. If you’re still doing some shopping, take a look at our page for some different ways to think about [...]

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Tonight we went out with Marta and Andy: great Italian food, a serendipitous meeting with Wendy Clark Goodwin (who invited us to a concert she was giving at Borders…you can hear them yourself at NFC Dec. 17)…but most of all, outstanding conversation.
Marta and Andy, over the last couple of years, have felt God’s leading to [...]

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