Writings

Essays

• "Come with me": Strangers on a Greyhound bus
• Establish the Work of Our Hands: Writing as Ministry in Southeast San Diego 
• "Stuck in My Head": Reflections on Art and Christianity  
• Thoughts on Holiness
• Two things have I heard
• What is the Church and its mission in the world today? 

Songs and hymns As you led your people in the wilderness Christ, live inside our hearts (Ephesians 3:14-21) Happy are the ones (Psalm 1) Jesus is risen! Just as I am, I make my plea  Rejoice in the Lord always (Philippians 4:4) The whole earth is filled with God's glory (Isaiah 6:3) Though I have tried to follow you Wake up, O sleeper (Ephesians 5:14) You're the one who created me Poems  145 A bird like that A sky shepherd  A tack  A Whisper and a Kiss About 5 pm About 7:46 am Bachelor Party in Two Buttes Blue Below Blue Breakfast By Putah Creek, Children's Prayers Cobblestones Family Foam Harbor View  Innsbruck In the Name of You In the Sixth Month June 2 Lowly Metabolism  Open Doors Poem in the Night Sky Rest Second First Senioritis Six years Skyline Drive Song for the Dawn Southeast Sunrise Spanish Brass Quartet straddler Straddling Sunrise over Green Canyon The Blue Line Psalm The Dew The Hummingbird The Same Sand  The Second First The Trees by Clear Creek The Wind Bends  To Winter Trimming When I wake up Winter Woodlands

Sermons

• Psalm 90, "Satisfy Us in the Morning with Your Steadfast Love"
• Isaiah 64:1-9, "Wait for the LORD"
• Jonah 1-2, "I Worship the LORD"
• Jonah 3-4, "A Garden in the Wilderness"
• Luke 1:39-56, "Waiting Joyfully and Together" 
• Acts 16:9-15: "Beside running water"
• 1 Peter 1:8-9, "Waiting for the Coming of Christ"

Additional resources

• A Conversation with Eugene Peterson 2007 with Dean Nelson, my journalism professor from college
• Soundcloud  -  I Believe We'll See the Sky. Some songs are based on biblical stories, some are hymns and most are written in a folksy style. 
• Wem of Wister - a speculative fiction novella I wrote and self-published in 2014
• "Wielding Thor's Hammer: What It Means to Write as Ministry" by Susan Yanos, one of my writing professors from seminary