Another very fun and very beautiful day in Beaufort, South Carolina. I took a carriage tour of the historic downtown area first thing this morning, then stopped in at the Chamber of Commerce to meet Caroline Hipp, who’s been most helpful to me. She’s young, hip and v. cool. I had a great time getting a feel for the city …

A good day. Woke up. Always a good start to the day, no? Slept well so I felt ready to go for a run. Which is stupid because I so hate running, but didn’t want to let too many days go by without exercise. Ran right down the main drag, Boundary Street. Did I say run? I mean plod. Came …

I just want to say, Google Map lied to me. “Rachel,” it said, “take I-95 to US-278, then SC-141 to SC-170, to SC-170N and turn right and there’s your hotel.” Each one of these exchanges were noted to be about 4 miles long – each. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Couldn’t be any more wrong. Nevertheless, I found Beaufort, South Carolina and …

Another post from my husband: For a couple years now I’ve been forcing myself (against my will) to add an evangelistic component to my life. It started as a two hour commitment on Tuesday nights sharing the gospel at the beach, and evolved into our downtown outreach. I thought I would continue to give a couple hours a week to …

Tony and me with one of our favorite people, Shawn Bolz. We met Shawn about five years ago in Kansas City at the first December One Thing conference. From the first moment I heard him speak about God, Jesus, heavenly encounters I knew he was for real, down to earth and the spirit in me connected with the spirit in …

Ever have one of those good, but weird days? I sort of had one of those today, but I’m cool with it. Weird exchange with a friend. One that made me go, “Hum, that’s odd.” So, anyway, I’m procrastinating and refuse to give any more of my heart and time to it. Oh, saw Lost In NashVegas in Barnes & …

I type to you today using my new Mac. Grin. How fun. The hardest thing was getting my iTunes off of the dying Averatec, but Tony and I did it. No thanks to James Exley. Love you, bro! All is well. Need to get writing on Sweet Caroline. Grace and peace.

Angels. Been hearing a lot about angels in the past two years. And have been aware of them on occassion, especially when I’m writing or leading worship. We had a confernce in our region this week with the team from WhiteDove Ministries. One of the speakers was Randy Demain and he shared his testimony with an angel named Breakthrough Revival. …

Please, let me clarify about breaking up with my Dell comptuer and going with a Mac. I’m not against Dell. I love Dell computers. Kudos to Mr. Dell for creating such a great company. But it’s the whole third-party, bunch-of-software-I-don’t need with mean party guests like Avenue A and Double Click that I can never seem to get rid of. …

I’m convinced one of the hardest challenges for the 21st Century Believer in Jesus is trust, leaning, believing. The F word. Faith. We detest waiting. We loath the process. The ten second version is too long. The two second, too short. Can’t God conform, transform, reform me in six to eight seconds? A Hollywood sound bit is only 4 seconds …