About

Peregrin is a Celtic term for someone who sets off without map or compass in search of the place God will show him.  Along his journey he spreads the truth of the gospel of Christ wherever he happens to find himself.

To me, the word is a beautiful picture of the type of journey all Christians are called to in this life.

I started this blog as an outlet for my thoughts, rants, ramblings, meditations, prayers, and other detritus from my mind and heart as I continue on my journey as a Vagabond or Peregrin for Christ.  It is also a way for me to try and connect with others on their respective journeys.  So far it has worked well for these purposes.

I am 37 years old, living in the Southeast.  I have been blissfully married to my Dream Girl for 15 years now and we have three amazing sons; Big Bo-D (14), Champ (11), and Sand Dawg (10).  These are nicknames of course, with great stories behind each of them, we are not cruel parents who got a kick out of giving their children odd names.

I write about things that are important to me; God, my family, the church, spiritual formation, travel, books, theatre, the environment, education, and culture.  I am especially interested in the impact that technology has on our culture and our world.  In fact a professor of mine once called me a closet sociologist.

As a follower of Christ, everything I write comes from that worldview.  It is a worldview based on 7 basic beliefs.  I list them here for you so that you can understand the mindset from which I operate. 

1.  The infinite and personal God of the Bible is the prime reality.  All reality derives and gets its meaning from Him.

2.  The external world is a deliberate, designed, orderly creation of God over which He has placed us as stewards, but also over which He has ultimate control.

3.  Mankind is a being created by God in His image.  We are not animals, we are humans and there is a difference.  Our ability to think, to feel, to reason, and to choose comes from our Creator.

The purpose of mankind is to live in relationship with our Creator through His Son Jesus Christ and to model God’s character and heart as loving, compassionate, good, just, and merciful people.  We live out these characteristics both as individuals and as a community.

4.  Death has two dimensions.  There is physical death, where the soul, or the central core of one’s being, is seperated from the body and the body decays and returns to dust.  In spiritual death, the soul itself is seperated from God.  We are born into a state of sin, where our soul is already seperated from God, but we can be reborn through Christ into new life.

5.  Meaning in life is connected to God.  We can know, and have purpose and meaning because of our relationship to the creator from whom all meaning derives.  Apart from God, life is meaningless.

6.  Right and wrong are based on God’s character.  He is the ultimate standard for all that is good, right, and perfect.

7.  History is the story of God’s interaction with His creation in His cosmic plan to redeem mankind and bring us back to Himself and the world into proper order.

I welcome comments of all kinds.  I reserve the right to edit all comments in terms of the type of language used since this a Rated PG blog.  But I will not edit them in terms of content.  I don’t ask that you agree with me, only that you disagree respectfully.  I will of course pay you the same courtesy because no theological or mental construct, belief, or ideal takes precedence over the dignity and value of a human being made in God’s image.