Here are some of the things I am thinking about and might write more on...

* The alabaster box...made to make dead things smell good...

* Worship: Why is it so often more like the prophets of Baal dancing around a silent altar...why doesn't He come?

* Uncircumcised hearts...your heart is good it just needs to be trimmed. The cutting process of dreams, visions and desires...a lot like pruning roses.

* Are we sleeping in separate beds? The absence of fervent love in the church.

* Where are the Pauls? The absence of apostolic and fatherly care. Is no one out there who wants to empower youth pastors with more than a slick mag of the latest stuff to buy or articles that inform but don't inspire.

* Alex...my biggest fan. A young man with down syndrome who attends our youth church and what he has taught me.

* Just standing...learning the art of staying put. My encounter with a rock at Newport beach and what it said to me.

* The ship that didn't make it...my encounter with a sunken boat, wandering souls and a light house.

* Why I left my blanky behind...thoughts on friendships, the ones that stay and the ones that don't.

* The job idol...why do people put work before worship?

* What I've learned from not getting what I wanted...