I was passing by a tree in my neighborhood recently, which had blown down in a windstorm. You know, one of those once-a-year storms that comes out of nowhere with some serious velocity. This tree looked like it had been around a while. Not a California redwood by any stretch, but no sapling either. Old [...]

Been doing some thinking about the current season of my life, and it sometimes just blows my mind how fast time is passing. Maybe you’ve had some thoughts lately that go like this:   “Man, I can’t believe ____________ !”      As in,  “I can’t believe True North is 4 1/2 years old already!!”   Or “I [...]

Hey Gang, I got some great feedback from the message series we just wrapped up, entitled ‘Blood Work.’ In message 2, we discussed three things that can make our blood unhealthy and discussed their correlation to things that make us unhealthy spiritually. Those three things were: Anemia (spiritual weakness, not feeding ourselves), Leukemia (allowing the [...]

So I went to my daughter’s Violin Recital today. This was not an auspicious event. She’s in the 3rd grade. And if you’ve ever been to a 3rd grade violin recital then you have joined me in wishing that the violin was a fixed pitch instrument. The recital involved 10 songs, which were each about [...]