A great video of my friend Carl Tuttle leading worship/ministry time. I’m singing with his team this Sunday… Holy Spirit Come from Paul Perham on Vimeo. Listen ⇢

We live in uncertainty. What does God want, where is he leading us? What will tomorrow bring, in finance, in relationships, in our health? As we get older, because of life experience, the nuances become more apparent, and life can appear more uncertain. And yet, our humanity seeks stability. For… Listen ⇢

Do you ever have a day where everything just seems to go right? I don’t know if it’s the extra shot of espresso I had in my latte this morning, or just an unusual feeling of euphoria, but today has been a good day. I spent the entire day today… Listen ⇢

Connections and clusters, everyone has them. We call them families. We call them friends. We call them congregations. We call them co-workers. We all have them to one degree or another. Some of these social connections are an accident of birth and stronger than titanium. Some of them are by… Listen ⇢

Christmas and I have a love-not-so-much-love relationship. I don’t have a lot of childhood memories of Christmas. I remember one year I got a bicycle. Lots of years it was new underwear. Twenty years ago or so, around the Christmas season, my mom took her life. I don’t think that… Listen ⇢

For those of us who are not techno-geeks, computers are a bit of a mystery. Maybe we understand that they operate by programs that are made up of a computer language that we call code, maybe not. We have heard about hackers, viruses and spam, but we might not understand… Listen ⇢

I think the most important thing a follower of Jesus can learn is to hear from God. Walking in the Spirit in our daily lives requires a cultivation of this ability. However, when you hear God about the big things, that is always overwhelming and very re-assuring. In the fall… Listen ⇢

Road trips, there is nothing like ’em. I took a road trip from Southern California to Phoenix, Arizona. It was one day there and one day back, about five hours of driving time each way, just enough time to do some serious thinking. Enough time to get quiet enough for… Listen ⇢