Chris Bishop

In the age of twitter, how would you proclaim the Good News with only 140 characters?  Redirecting to external links doesn’t count.  Today the amount of written material and media is astounding.  Most of it is just background noise to us.  It is hard to have something that passes through our filters and then makes [...]

The past couple of days have been a true gift.  Friday was my Sabbath and it was filled with a little work while Eden was in preschool, then we went to chuck “e” cheese and we suppressed Eden with a playmate there with one of her best friends, then we played outside where we got [...]

I am loving this little camera that I got for my birthday this year.  Katie got it for me thinking about camp, and the fact that I am rough on things.  It is one of those cameras that is waterproof, freeze proof, impact resistant and dustproof.  I have been sticking it in my bag and [...]

In some of the research that I have been doing about orchards I found out about “fruit cocktail” trees. These are multiple different kinds if trees that are grafted together to make a hybrid tree. I have heard of people having five kinds of fruit coming from one tree. The scripture we were using for [...]

This past weekend that i thought would be a great idea.  We kicked off a new series called “Becoming.”  It is all about being transformed into people that God has made us to be.  The thought was that we would try and reflect what we are doing in Sunday morning worship by having a series [...]

I am sometimes a very dense person and so I wanted to share about a recent process of discernment for something that is a bit silly, but perhaps a good illustration.  I have posted before about the order and state of my desk and work area.  I like to live amongst the chaos, perhaps an [...]

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