• About Bruce

    A web programmer by day, I somehow still spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, God, and the significance of grace and love in daily events. I am old school in the sense that I believe in the reality of sin, and in the need of each human heart for deliverance to the Divine. I am one of those who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that you can find most answers to life's pressing issues in Him and His Word, the Bible. I ain't perfect, and a lot of the time I ain't good, but by God's grace and kindness, I am forgiven and free.

    Quick Hits | November 1, 2011

    by  • November 1, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    “As Eugene Peterson said, ‘We live in narrative, we live in story. Existence has a story shape to it. We have a beginning and an end, we have a plot, we have characters.’ Story is the language of the heart. …So if we’re going to find the answer to the riddle of the earth-...

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    Reading for Results

    by  • November 1, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    I don’t know if you are like me in this, but my ability to get through books comes and goes.  I don’t know if it is seasonal or what, but there are periods in my life when I am primed and pumped, and I can get through a series of books with little problem,...

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    A Lesson in Losing

    by  • October 28, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ~ Matthew 10:39 Whenever any talk bubbles up about losing one’s life for someone else, most everyone will agree that the person who has done this is the noblest of beings. We read stories in the...

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    Looking Back On Love I

    by  • October 27, 2011 • FlashBacks • 0 Comments

    At age 43, I often think I should be farther along in life than I am. In love. In a profession. In handling the daily grind. I’ve been on this planet for four decades, and have seen more minutes of living than a number of people I have liked or appreciated: Chris Farley was...

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    SOTD: “Come On Get Higher” by Matt Nathanson

    by  • October 24, 2011 • SOTD • 0 Comments

    I want to tell you why this is the song of the day.  About two years ago, I started dancing to quell my long streak of staying home every weekend night.  I gave a few ballroom classes a try.  Uhh- no.  A friend then directed me to try some classes at the Albuquerque Dance...

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    Who Owns You?

    by  • October 21, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    I am currently working through my fifth turn of being involved with a Crown Money Management course.  I originally took the course as a student 2 years ago or so, and I have helped co-lead 4 classes through Sagebrush Church after that.  I have always struggled with managing money, and the basic concepts you...

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    Another Love Lesson

    by  • October 20, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    After bleeding for 6 months over a (non-)love lost, I am at a place where I am realizing that my perspective on love needs some real work.  Well, not just my perspective.  My practice, as well.  I detach what I should know from my faith about loving from the mechanisms that actually drive my...

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    Celebrating Three Summer Goals Reached

    by  • October 18, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    I stopped for a moment this last Sunday night between chores and thought back over the summer, and was filled with a deep sense of gratitude for how those months worked out heading into this fall. I recalled that I had set a few goals for myself at the start of summer that, at...

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    Quick Hits | Tuesday, October 4, 2011

    by  • October 4, 2011 • Dear Diary • 0 Comments

    I don’t know why it takes me so long to realize, and to just accept, that sometimes you love somebody, and they just don’t feel the same about you, much at all.  Who can say why.  Maybe your head isn’t shaped right for them.  Maybe you wear the wrong deodorant.  Maybe your left eye...

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    A Mourning Prayer

    by  • September 29, 2011 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Heavenly Father, Maker of my smile and my tears, sit next to me and remind me that You are boundless. Remind me that You have made my heart, and that while we love and lose, this is how You made us to allow us to grow, and in the growing, to know You. I...

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    Working On Worship

    by  • September 26, 2011 • LifeStuff • 1 Comment

    I have a valued friend who is in a deep struggle about the worship he experiences in most churches today.  To him, most music that is played in church does not properly approach God with reverence and respect. “There should be a difference between the music we hear in church, which should prepare us...

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