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  • This site you are now on is my home on the web. I created it In 2010 to resource Christian pastors, teachers, leaders, and individuals regarding in matters of faith. In February 2013, I added a Personal Finance section designed to help anyone manage their money. In April 2013, I added the IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) section as a place to post wide ranging items, including political content. To keep up with what's going on at home, just subscribe to my email or RSS feed. 
  • I also have a second home on the web. It is my Math Coaching site, which supports my wife and my work with under-resourced students living in a west San Jose (CA). You can also subscribe to its email or RSS feed.
  • And I have some outposts on the web. These are places where I interact with people and also selectively repost material from the above 2 sites. My outposts are  Google+ (my favorite),  No Labels (a political site focused on building a collaborative environment in government. I occasionally post in the California and San Jose groups). particularly in the in the California and San Jose groups), and FaceBook.

To find what you are looking for on my sites, browse the Navigation bar (left panel) for a content listing of the top 2 levels of hierarchy. The most frequently visited (or most current) links are duplicated in the horizontal navigation bar across the top of each page. If you're looking for something but you're not sure what part of the sitetree I may have put it in, just type a keyword into the Search field at the upper right hand corner of every page. It even searches attached documents!

You can freely use any materials on this site (including attachments). You can copy and distribute them for yourself or to use in your ministry or organization. But please do not sell my resources. When you distribute them unchanged, please leave my name attached. When you change a resource to fit your needs it becomes your own, so please remove my name. If you think my contribution was significant enough to your finished product, you can give me an annotation of some sort - but this is not required. When you use my preaching or teaching material you do not need to give me any credit. Finally, if you have a site of your own, feel free to point to pages on this site.

My site also is a portal to offer some of my time to serve Christian churches and non-profits through preaching, teaching and consulting. I also make time available for individuals for spiritual inquiry and Christian growth. For more on this, follow the link to What Tim Offers.



A snippet about Tim

In May 2010 I retired from 18 years as senior pastor of New Life Nazarene Church, Cupertino, CA. It is a church full of wonderful people. When I retired it was organized into 3 different language congregations - English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. A Spanish language congregation joined in January 2013.  

Prior to that I spent 22 years in engineering and business while actively involved in churches in Ohio, New York, and (mostly) California. My secular career was in integrated circuit development at (mostly) National Semiconductor, and as Vice President of Operations through the startup years of Cadence Design Systems.

As amazing as it seems, the same woman who married me in 1967 is still my partner.  Along the way we raised 2 kids and now enjoy 3 grandkids.  
For more, go to Tim's Bio.


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The picture at the top of the Home page?

My site is pretty heavy on content so I try to brighten up the pages as much as possible. One way is to put a photo atop this page.

Every few weeks I change the photo, which is usually one with a local or personal connection. I'm not a skilled photographer, but I do take most of the photos for this slot.

The one there now is from our front yard, taken in March, 2013.


Other site news:


4/26/2013: Updated the center column of this page. 

3/26: Updated Reading Suggestions.

1/5: Repaired RSS feed and added email feed capability to my sister site: mathcoaching.isbellonline.org. From the experience I again refined the Sending Feeds from Your Site webpage.

11/30/012: Updated 2 subpages of Website Design. 1) Rewrote Sending Feeds from your site to clean up difficulties in rss and email feeds.  2) Added section 6.3 in Website Design Details to explain how to add feedback/comment forms to any webpage (example at Dealing with Terminal Illness).

10/5/012: I just added another sermon to the Money Sermons webpage. It's titled Christian Math.