O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony.  My soul is in anguish.  How long, O Lord, how long? (Psalm 6:2-3) You could never accuse David of being either shy, nor retiring.  He lets it all hang out when he addresses God.  All his emotional, psychological and spiritual bagga...

Jesus came to earth not to beserved, but to be a servant of many.  As Jesus' followers our arm should be draped with a servant's towel as we seek to wash the feet of friend, neighbor, stranger and enemy alike.  Listen in to find out more...(still to upload)...

I tend to think of interoperability as a gradient. The old industry stalwart from the 1990's is what I'd call "runtime interoperability", wherein you could write a Java EE application, deploy it on a Java EE application server, and (with a questionable amount of tweaking), get it to operate. SQL was...

Jesus immersed himself in the scriptures of his day.  As we follow him, we should do the same.  In this message we explore how it is we should read the bible.  The central premise of the message is that we should read the bible as a dog chews a bone.  Listen in... Download Je...

Jesus was immersed in the scriptures by the time he found himself in the temple debating the teachers of the law at age 12.  Like all good Jewish kids he would have memorized most of the Torah (the first five books of the bible).  He grew up in a culture saturated in the scripture....

Previously on the hit game show, "What's a Cloud?" John Willis: Is Everyone an aaS? Greg Pfister: Is Cloud Computing Just Everything aaS? (my interpretation of) IBM's definition: a style of IT delivery combining virtualization + soa + service management, for apps, data, and IT resources Over on RedM...

Previously on the hit game show, "What's a Cloud?" John Willis: Is Everyone an aaS? Greg Pfister: Is Cloud Computing Just Everything aaS? (my interpretation of) IBM's definition: a style of IT delivery combining virtualization + soa + service management, for apps, data, and IT resources Over on RedM...

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit to the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.  He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.  (Luke 4: 1-2)   Fasting refers to abstaining from food for s...

We live in a culture of appetite addiction.  We eat more, consume more, spend more; all in the desperate search for happiness.  That is why the spiritual discipline of fasting is such a counter-cultural practice. Jesus began his ministry with a fast.  He expects those who wou...

I attended a Cloud Interoperability Forum in Mountain View yesterday, hosted by Stephen O'Grady from Redmonk and David Berlind from InformationWeek. I roughly counted around 50-60+ in attendance, with a moderate drop off after lunch. Twitter stream is available under #cloudinterop. Here are my takea...