Tomorrow I’m off to Deleware (”A Refreshing Pause on Your Way to New Jersey!”) to see Joe Bassett and Jeremy Casella in concert, with our mutual friend Cason Cooley (formerly of The Normals, and everyone else that matters). Very pumped am I. Especially since I will be staying at Joe and Rhonda’s palacial rock star [...]

Today Karyn figured out my schedule for my first semester at Westminster. Somehow holding that schedule in my hands makes this whole crazy thing just one step closer to being real.
You’ll have to excuse the incredulity and naivete that follows, but I’ve never been to “real college” before. After high school I went [...]

…and I don’t want to work outside.
That line from an old Derek Webb song (Stupid Kid) has been all too literally true for me. I hate yard work. To me, it is sheer drudgery. I hate being sweaty and dirty. I dislike the smell and feel of dirt. Men who seem to live for working [...]

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. (Romans 12:15)
Whenever I’ve thought about the verses that call us to share in the sufferings of fellow Christians, I’ve usually daydreamed a romantic vision of enduring persecution on the mission field or risking disease by caring for highly contagious people. It’s convenient to daydream like [...]

Dear Mark,
Welcome to Westminster! It is my pleasure to advise you that you have been selected for admission to the Master of Divinity degree program with an emphasis in Counseling, beginning in the Summer of 2004. Let me also take this opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to you as one who has chosen Westminster as [...]

Knowing that on our way back from Maine we would be visiting a church Karyn and I attended at the beginning of our marriage, I was prepared for a wave of nostalgia. I was not prepared, however, for a new (or perhaps “renewed” would be better) glimpse of God’s Kingdom alive and well.
Twenty-six years ago [...]

It’s our last day here in Greenville . It’s a sunny 49 (hey, we’ve had snow twice since we arrived Monday) and I still can’t take my eyes off the mountains around Wilson Pond. I’m more and more sure that my little corner of the New Earth is going to look like this.
Early [...]

The Sage and his trusted sidekick LSW (the Long Suffering Wife) are firing up the Sagemobile and heading out on tour tomorrow to perform for their adoring fans, and by “adoring fans” I mean “grandchildren.”
We’ll be away from Good Friday through the next week, first in Durham then up to Maine. I’ll send reports [...]

Posted at the request of my daughter Hannah…
As the release of Acoustic Joe Bassett’s critically acclaimed (which is to say, Geof likes it) debut EP Promised Land nears, I thought it might be time to rehash some of the rumors running like crazy around the CCM press concerning this epic recording.
Those of us with [...]