Jose Humphreys

This was the first prayer my father taught me when I was a kid. I found a copy of it engraved on a cross while at our spiritual retreat. El Padre Nuestro, the Our Father.
Padre nuestro que estas en los cielos, sanctificado sea tu nombre. Venganos tu reino. Hagase tu voluntad, asi en [...]

Project management is a big part of what I do in the nonprofit arena. With the plethora of time management books out there many don’t just don’t fit for me. I find that personality/temperament has alot to do with it too. I gleaned the “two minute rule” out of David Allen’s, Getting Things [...]

Mayra and I are taking time away at the Mount Saint Mary House of Prayer. For the blog familia, keep us in prayer as we seek God’s guidance for present and future endeavors.

I love this quote by Chesterton as he reflects in wonder about God’s qualitative otherness and our human propensity and constant need for stimulation.
A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. [...]

NY Times: Preaching a Gospel of Wealth in a Glittery Market
Creflo Dollar has recently opened a church in Madison Square Garden with a reported membership of 5000. Is it wrong for me to assume that the majority of these folks are transfers? Article even talks about the inherent tensions of a prosperity theology.
Religion & [...]

I wrote this in my journal today.
Thanks King for paying the price for your vision. A place and a nation where people could be judged by the content of their character. I believe, no I know, this is God’s dream too. If not for your ultimate obedience, being compelled to this call, who knows [...]

I’ll be preaching on this title tomorrow back at my home church (mother church who had launched us). I’ll be using Micah 6 as the premise for remembrance as an integral part of worship. Worship cannot be truncated from a larger narrative/story/testimony, or it can get routine and disconnected just as Israel was reminded [...]

China’s economic reforms have turned an almost uniformly poor nation into an increasingly prosperous one in the space of a mere generation. But the collapse of socialized medicine and staggering cost increases have opened a yawning gap between health care in the cities and the rural areas, where the former system of free clinics has [...]

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My recent meditations on the book of Acts, have me running scared. The unmerited, unjust suffering of many believers, turned out to be the catalyst for the dispersment of the Gospel. How do we in the church demonstrate and teach about this kind of fruit-bearing suffering?
Long periods of well-being and comfort are in general dangerous [...]

Went to the DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) last Friday about a speeding ticket I got last year in Miami. DMVs can be like blackholes that suck the hours out of your day. On my way inside I was greeted by a man at the entrance who emphatically shouted “Good morning New York! I [...]

On Sundays after church my wife and I just kick it in our “rec room” and read the Sunday Times. They have a good sports story on the Cuban baseball team titled, “It’s Time to Play Ball And Let Cuba In”. Unfortunately I couldn’t retrieve that stories’ specific link, so here’s a piece:
It is [...]

Great thread at Emergent Voyageurs on Homosexuality & the Church. Catch part I & part II. Jamie does a great job facilitating an honest and difficult discussion.

From a poll at AOL:
Do you object to Jesus being a co-star on a primetime show?
This is about a new television show on NBC called,The Book of Daniel. Can it be one of those times you say, “I need to watch the show first” or…