It's my privilege to be a staff member of Harvest Church.
Harvest is an Evangelical Free Church in Story City, Iowa.
Our church is committed to the mission of "Reaching Up" and "Reaching Out" for the cause of Jesus Christ.
As a fellowship, we first seek to reach up to God as we strive to understand Him better through the revelation he provided in the Bible.
The second component of our mission is to reach out. This first involves community as we learn to reach out to one another as fellow-sojourners in the kingdom of Christ. Secondly, it involves reaching out into the world as we seek to aid others through our kindness, character, and doctrine.
The main work area of the website is my blog. Here you will find over 400 posts about the Christian world view and scripture.
You will find other blog authors who are more profound or insightful than I tend to be. (There are links here to some of them.) Nevertheless, the observations in my blog are a modest effort to help readers give consideration to the person and work of Christ and the implications for all of our lives.
Some of the posts deal with questions I am asked from time to time about certain ideas or biblical texts. Others are reflections from events of the day and attempts to step back from the rhetoric of the moment to see how these events reflect the world view of the culture or the Bible.
I've
been married to Marsha since
1978, and deeply enjoyed learning from her
relationship with God in ways I never anticipated. She impresses me with
her generosity, her hunger to read and learn, and her passion for
leadership and mentoring. She is an invaluable asset to me, not only in
helping me learn how to connect with people in ways that are not native
to me, but in being an example in loving people and trusting Christ in
fresh ways.
We have one adult child, a son named Ian. He has grown
into
a young man whom I respect and admire in a number of ways. Ian is
extremely intelligent, a hard worker, passionate about doing things
well, and loyal to those around him. Ian is the Production Manager at AM
950 -- a radio station in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
I'm delighted that he has moved to about three hour's drive of us. Even though his work demands much of him, I am looking forward to seeing him more often than we did when we first moved to Iowa in 2009.
In the world of sports, I enjoy tennis, even when some of my best friends beat me. I also like an occasional game of golf, where I make my traditional sacrifice of balls to the water gods.
There's some techie blood in me. I enjoy building computers from components, and have assembled over 30 systems over the years. My favorite online retailer is Newegg. I work on the IBM platform. I maintain two websites, several Access databases for ministry, and have taught adult classes in Microsoft Office applications in a college environment.
My constant joy is reading. I appreciate the gift of literacy and the opportunity to learn from those living and dead how to better understand how to shape my life after Jesus and his teachings.
