Good Friday. What a beginning to a day. At 7:00 a.m. this morning, I was at the church, opening the sanctuary for our annual Stations of the Cross experience. This year, it's pretty amazing. The artists of the Northwest Church decided to create pieces for each of the stations, and I am both thrilled and …
Missing Friends, Ways of Being
My life has been rearranged significantly since taking on the role of Interim Preaching Minister at the Northwest Church, and there are definitely things I miss about my former life. Don't feel too sorry for me--Anjie thinks I'm happier than I've been for a long time. There is a focus to my days now, a …
Complexity, Simplicity
As I lingered over Isaiah this morning, thinking about the emergent and missional conversation going on among Christian churches, I drifted back and forth between the simplicity of life with God, and the complexity of what it means to be human in a life as rich and varied as centuries and continents allow. The postmodern …
Mission
This past weekend, the elders of the Northwest Church spent 12 hours over Friday and Saturday working through thoughts of mission, values, and vision for this church. It was stimulating, exciting, difficult, challenging, and in the end, we walked away with a renewed sense of mission, and committed to the soul-searching process of yielding ourselves …
Living Water
I told the church yesterday I feel like my head is under water. My right ear has been clogging up lately, then reopening, but for the past two days its been completely closed so that I'm not hearing very well. It's annoying, and it's giving me an appreciation for the feelings of those who begin …
JEFF BERRYMAN 