Help Needed

The Loux family is wanting a display of children who were adopted as a result of Derek’s influence over the past few years.  The display will be used in the memorial service as well as placed in the Children’s Home that Renee plans on building in days to come.
The Zoe Foundation is helping to produce [...]

Reconciling What We Feel and What We Know

My Blackberry began to buzz at 5:03am.  Derek Loux was in a car accident somewhere in Nebraska.  Would we pray? After a number of back and forth text messages, at 7:42am I got the message that has sat in my gut like a rock for the past eight hours:  “He’s gone.”
Derek leaves a beautiful [...]

I Don’t Think God Speaks in Tongues.

Some time back I cooked up this idea of a series of uncooked posts…thought fragments that weren’t quite thought through well enough to be formal posts, but rather ideas-in-process, and I’ve been processing this one about two weeks and still can’t work it into a pithy little prose piece, so here you have it in [...]

Dealing With Limited Quantities

There is a rule of human nature that says we treat things of limited quantity differently than things of which there is an endless supply. This is why we hang gold records on the wall but used to use AOL install cd’s as coasters. Familiarity breeds contempt – this is not only true [...]

Randomonium – Wind Down Edition

This edition of Randomoniom is brought to you by the fact that I got closer to Inbox : Zero than I have been in a while.  Technically, I have six emails left from four people, one to remind me of a check I need to write tomorrow, two regarding Hannah’s Dream budgets that include detailed [...]

Just Answer the Question

Most mornings, when I go into Zoe’s room to scoop her out of her crib, she greets me with a squeal, a kiss, and a “good morning Daddy!”.  The child is nearly criminally cheerful upon waking up (assuming she wakes up on her own….if you wake her up, all bets are off.).
Yesterday, however, instead of [...]

My Big Problem with the Awakening

As many of you know, we’re experiencing a unique (to us) move of the Holy Spirit at IHOP-KC right now.  Whether or not this is the new SOP or merely a glimpse of things to come, we’re not sure.  What we are sure of is that most of us haven’t seen or felt what we’re [...]

Christmas Shopping Ends Here.

OK, let’s just stick a fork in the Christmas shopping and call it done. You know you have 43 people left to shop for and not a clue what to buy.  I am going to do you a huge favor and tell you….get them a Zoe Foundation Calendar!
These remarkable calenders feature photos of IHOP families [...]

People Are Not Like Pandora

I’ve found a sweet spot this morning.  For those who must know, it’s a second hand wicker chair in a dark bedroom, a small space heater humming to my right, my dear wife sleeping on the bed to my left, and an eight year old boy crashed on a love seat positioned across a coffee [...]

Randomonium: Giving Thanks Edition

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  I’ve had a deep appreciation for it ever since a profound Thanksgiving service the first year we were married.  I have mentioned it a number of times, but if you’re still interested, the details are here.
This morning, Kelsey outdid herself by mustering up enough cinnamon rolls to feed [...]