http://www.ecreekside.com/ Weekly writing on faith and spirituality from Creekside members and staff. en-us office@ecreekside.com 2010-07-29T12:32:30-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100725.htm A couple of thoughts as my one-year anniversary of living in the Pacific Northwest and being part of the Creekside community arrives next week... This past year has been one of the best and one of the most challenging... 2568@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-07-29T12:32:30-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100718.htm Two words pop out at me when I read the words of Jesus in Matthew 18:13: Change and Become. Then I ask, change from what to become what? There are of course many possible dimensions to this short phrase...I will share 2565@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-07-22T10:01:56-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100711.htm About a month ago, I saw a hawk on the side of a hill. The hawk had a wounded wing, so rather than fly up the hill, it hopped. The hawk hopped until he reached a three-rail fence near the top of the hill, then he "flew" to the top rail where he perched himself to scan the hill below. I approached the hawk to get a better look, but I spooked him 2561@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-07-15T09:03:06-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100704.htm We spent five days last week at Family Camp. We hung out, ate fantastic food, worshiped, chatted, saw some fireworks, and even ate a pancake breakfast at the top of one of Rainier’s foothills. And while all of those... 2548@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-07-08T10:52:32-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100627.htm The last time you heard from me, I was eight weeks away from heading down to the Dominican Republic with our team from Creekside. We're now two weeks out and just about ready. You've heard about our different fund-raisers.... 2543@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-07-01T12:56:35-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100620.htm My friend, Krisann had a specific prayer request this week. It was that the Holy Spirit would "be in me in an extra powerful way". She asked for this as she was leaving on a trip that was "way, way out of [her] comfort zone". Where was she going? 2541@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-06-24T10:34:55-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100613.htm I have been walking a lot lately, as I’m training for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure in September, where my team and I will walk 20 miles a day for three days, raising money for breast cancer research, prevention and awareness. 2535@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-06-17T08:57:26-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100606.htm Can you remember the cruelest thing someone’s ever said to you? What about the most hurtful thing you’ve said to someone else? I thought of something really spiteful I said to my father. As soon as the words had come out of my mouth, I regretted them; even now, I can feel how hurt he was. That’s the power of the word. 2531@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-06-10T10:17:57-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100530.htm I’m late writing this, so I’m not on time. Yet lately, I’ve been feeling time hovering over me like a Predator drone. Part of this feeling is just getting older and seeing younger people entering into times that I... 2526@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-06-03T13:46:53-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100523.htm Early in January, Keith Ferrin came up to me and said, "Hey Dude." (I know, it sounds like him, right?) Anyway, he continued, "I'm thinking of asking some guys to join me in reading the Bible through in four... 2522@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-05-27T13:39:19-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100516.htm My days consist of me looking for houses for people. I take their needs and their wants in a home and I go out and find it for them. And if I’m not doing that, I’m telling all the other people out there why they will want the house that I’m selling because of all it has to offer. I love doing what I do. 2516@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-05-20T12:07:32-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100509.htm I used to be less like a news junkie and more like a news ostrich, hiding and hoping no one would see me. Then along came Facebook, the one-stop shop for sharing links of any kind - funny, informative, inflammatory. 2511@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-05-13T10:30:26-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100502.htm "There is a river that washes you clean..." So goes a song by Jars of Clay, which is playing while I write about water. I love that song; it reminds me of so many places in the Bible where water is a theme 2504@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-05-06T15:03:05-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100425.htm Why is it so hard to rest? I mean, really rest. Not, I’m-going-to-sit-for-an-hour-and-read-a-book-then-get-back-to-my-busyness type of rest. I’m talking about fully unplugged, I’m-not-going-to-log-on-to-Facebook-Twitter-or-email kind of rest. As my friend Doug says, "Sabbath for me is about not producing anything. Helps... 2496@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-04-29T10:14:16-08:00 http://www.ecreekside.com/Archives/article/20100418.htm I’m sitting at the computer writing this article. I never do that! I always write and re-write in longhand before I ever go to the keyboard. When I talked to Lynn about doing an article about our cruise to... 2488@http://www.ecreekside.com/ 2010-04-22T14:26:03-08:00