Thus Saith the Dog!

My wife and I have been talking about our relationships with the people around us. You know all the people that are around us like friends, family, and co-workers. The person we buy coffee from everyday from at Starbucks or that weird next-door neighbor we wave to every once and awhile. The conversation always starts [...]

Last week, I had a conversation with two people who were struggling with the same issue… the church and church people. The conversations both started with something that sounded like this:
I cannot understand the narrow mindedness of people who call themselves Christian. I no longer want to be around church people. The thought of going [...]

What does the Shepherd do with the one lost sheep once has found him?
I have wondered about that from time to time over the years.  I made many assumptions about the reunion and reinstallation of sheep into the fold, but I am not so sure I really understood the significance of it until this month.
Let [...]

Nearly two years ago, we gained another member in our family of 5 humans, an English bulldog, a demon possessed orange tabby and two desert tortoises.
Her name was Pixie. She was a tiny white Chihuahua who was down and out. Her world had been turned on its end. Pixie’s whole life consisted of her biological [...]

How would you describe a “lost” person? Before you answer that, don’t use any religious, biblical or church terms.
Now how would you describe a “lost” person?
Well if you are anything like me you probably thought about driving and trying to follow someone else’s bad directions and before you know it, you are in unexplored territory. [...]

When I was having coffee Thursday morning I met a young lady named Mara who has survived a suicide attempt and had been involved in Self-injury (cutting) for several years. It was refreshing to listen to her story of survival and learn that she was now a radical follower of Christ working with teen girls [...]

This is in response to seeing and hearing Christian people who have a superior attitude that truthfully does not line up with the message of the gospel. -RD

The truth is….
The church, that is, the body of Christ, i.e. people that claim to belong to God, has made the message of the cross about them.
This narrow [...]

So here I am in 2010. It is a time of fresh new starts for many. The first week of the year it was nearly impossible to find a parking place at the gym and then all the “newbie resolutioners” were hogging up all the cardio bikes equipped with televisions! It forced me to make [...]

The whole premise for the name Ninety-Nine4One is based on the Parable of the Lost Sheep found in Luke 15:3-7. The story is told by Jesus of a shepherd leaving 99 sheep to find the one that was lost. The philosophy of Ninetynine4one is to seek the lost; “the one”, so to speak, and to [...]

A young man, no more than 25 years old, just started asking me questions after seeing me tuck my bible into my bag.
“You believe that stuff?”
“Is that what you call truth?”
“Are you some sort of preacher or something?”
As we sat across from each other at a Coffee Bean, he fired question after question at me [...]