Category: Millennials
-
Mentoring through time
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Tuesday night’s BlogTalkRadio interview with Brent Garrison is required listening for everyone over 57. It’s about mentoring across generations, especially between Boomers and Millennials. Our research tells us that the Millennials are all for it, but the Boomers aren’t quite sure. Now if mentoring sounds…
-
639-year Concert
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore. – Bob Dylan There is a live concert going on right now being performed at this very moment on a special organ built just for this purpose in a medieval church in Halberstadt, Germany. This…
-
Staying awake to the world
My father sat in on an L.A. studio session in 1970 during the recording of my second album, “Have You Seen Jesus My Lord?”. He was not there because he liked the music (he didn’t), he was there for me, and I appreciated that, though it would have been a lot more fun had he…
-
‘Stuck in the Middle with You’
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right Here I am stuck in the middle with you. – Stealers Wheel Our friend made a comment yesterday that made me laugh. It also made me think of a silly song that suddenly had new meaning in the currently…
-
Jesus unscathed
Some say He was an outlaw, that He roamed across the land With a band of unschooled ruffians and a few old fishermen No one knew just where he came from or exactly what he’d done But they said it must be something bad that kept him on the run …
-
Church, 2020
Think about the amount of trust in the Holy Spirit there had to be in the formation of the early church. Especially after the persecution scattered believers all over the region. Groups of believers were springing up everywhere. All of them were preaching the Good News about Jesus and people were being added daily to…
-
‘Pulling out of the station’
I’m not sure who first said it, but it’s become pretty much of a commonly held belief now that 80 is the new 60. I’ll believe anything that makes me younger. That still seems a little old, but the truth of the matter is that age is in your head. There are 20-year-olds who are…
-
The salt of the earth
“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” Matthew 5:13 This verse has always puzzled me. I’m going to try to put some pieces together for all…
-
The other side of the generation gap
Those were the days my friend We thought they’d never end We’d sing and dance forever and a day We’d live the life we choose We’d fight and never lose Those were the days, oh yes those were the days – words by Gene Raskin One of our readers pointed…
-
From Creation to Restoration
We’re going to spend some more time this week on “The rest of the gospel” that I spoke to last week because it is critical to what differentiates the true gospel from this phenomenon we have come to know at least in America as a cultural/political faction masked as Christian. Being committed to the whole…
-
A vision becomes a Reality
This is an important day: June 17, 2019. Mark it. This is the day we discover that we are a part of something bigger than we ever dreamed.
-
God’s welcome home
Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing ’til you leave it for awhile… My good friend and mentor, Ron Ritchie, sent me a picture yesterday of the Christian rock group, Love Song, and Phil Keaggy, taken at an awards event a few years ago in Nashville. They’re all looking pretty good for their age, albeit…
-
The Sequel
People get ready there’s a train a-comin’ Pickin’ up passengers coast to coast All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin’ Don’t need no ticket you just thank the Lord – Curtis Mayfield, 1965 The Jesus Movement, circa 1968-1972, was the last great spiritual/cultural revolution…
-
A smile that could light a candle
Marti heard about my day today and that I was just starting the Catch at 2pm and suggested I write about a “normal” day in the life of John. My plan was to be writing the Catch this morning at a snowboard destination in the southern California mountains while Chandler and his friend were snowboarding.…