It all starts with a single step. The Camino Chronicles is a personal journal from the trail, where host Skip Heiney shares stories and reflections from his walk. It's about more than just "shoe-leather stuff"; it's about finding God in the unexpected, learning from the challenges of the road, and applying timeless spiritual truths to our modern lives. Let's walk the path together.
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It all starts with a single step. The Camino Chronicles is a personal journal from the trail, where host Skip Heiney shares stories and reflections from his walk. It's about more than just "shoe-leather stuff"; it's about finding God in the unexpected, learning from the challenges of the road, and applying timeless spiritual truths to our modern lives. Let's walk the path together.
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July 2, 2026
Sermon — 2026-07-02
Camino Chronicles.<br /><br />Good morning, everyone, and welcome to today's Camino Chronicle as I'm back (laughs) after a couple weeks of actually being on the Camino del Norte in Spain. I had a wonderful time with two of my granddaughters and survived the 105 degree heat wave. Oh my goodness. For today's Camino Chronicle, I want to declare to you, a king is coming. Now, I've been saying that a king is coming for quite a while, and I get mostly blank stares. Look, I- I'm not trying to pick a fight. I- I'm not trying to sound weird, but I am alarmed by the indifference, not- not just in the, in the world, but especially in the Church. People seem so dominated by their own lives, uh, all the tasks of the day, all the concerns for family and health or, or whatever, that being concerned about Jesus' return isn't given much attention. Excuse me. Sort of like the cry wolf story. So, it gets forgotten. Look, I get it. We are all self-centered. We're all self-concerned, self-absorbed, selfish people. Even when we try to be other centered because of how we, we have to do that, we want to be in charge. I want to offer you a new way of looking at this subject. Not only is the king coming, according to the Bible, but this king is going to set up, establish, and rule his kingdom. Excuse me. But I get ahead of myself. We Americans don't think well of the idea of a king. We fought a revolution to get free from one, and we act like we don't have a king over us now. (laughs) Saturday is July 4th, and for us Americans, it's our Independence Day. That alone should give you pause. Are you really independent today, or do you realize that you do need some help? If a kingdom is the realm of a king, well then what do we call our multiple governments? We have a national government and state government. We have county governments. We have city governments. We even have things like HOAs to rule over us, homeowners associations (laughs) ... gone wild. Now, look, I'm sure you can think of more, but businesses i- in our capitalist society surely establish kingdoms, as do all the nonprofits. I mean, even the churches are well-infused with internal government oversight. Hmm. Back in the Old Testament, there is the sad tale of a people who actually asked God to give them a king so that they could be (laughs) like the pagan nations around them. Now, the Lord was wanting to be their king, but they rejected Him as such, and they even wanted to do away with His government of them by what were called the judges. Well, so God gave them over to human kings. Now, what follows is the record. History tells us how it went. There were some good kings and... with things going better, but there were so many bad kings that the people grew to despise their situation. I- it's interesting to me that when things are going well for us, w- we tend to ignore the Lord. Then when things go badly, especially if they go very badly, th- the people rent their clothes, they try to repent, they get fervent in their prayers for deliverance and help. All of this history, of course, set up the first coming of Jesus Christ, the New Testament, and the record of God's amazing grace as the Bible unfolds for us some information about what is to come. Well, what is coming? A king is coming, a king who will rule and reign supremely, sovereignly over his domain, which will include, well, everything. (laughs) Before we try to understand this king or his coming or his kingdom, let's go back and look again at what a kingdom is and see if you are part of one or, or have a kingdom of your own. I mean, how many kingdoms can you think of? Is your home your castle? Is your business or your job set up as a kingdom? Are your sports teams not kingdoms of their own? I mean, face it. You are surrounded by kingdoms, and you yourself spend a lot of time trying to establish your own kingdom. Your ideas of what is moral get defended by rules and regulations, laws, if you will, that you establish- Hmm. ... and...
June 16, 2026
Start Living: Walk and Talk with God
A pastor reflects on his upcoming fourth Camino pilgrimage with his granddaughters, exploring what it really means to start living. He unpacks how a Morgan Freeman commercial and Rick Steves' travel stories point to a deeper truth: Jesus is calling us to abundant life. His practical encouragement is simple—take a long walk and talk honestly with God about everything on your mind.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Good morning, everyone, and welcome to today's edition of Camino Chronicles, where I look at some of the things that happen to us along the path of life. If I look a, a little bit dark in the screen, it's because I'm coming to you from my new apartment and haven't quite worked out the lighting yet. But anyway, you get the idea. Now, this will be my last Camino for the month of June because I'm actually leaving in a few days for Spain again to walk another Camino. And I'm rejoicing because this time, I'll be joined by two of my granddaughters. (laughs) What a wonderful blessing it is for a grandpa to get to spend such focused time with his grandkids, with all day for two weeks to discover the sights and the sounds and the people and the foods (laughs) and the countryside of Spain along the Mediterranean Sea. I'm looking forward to all the encounters during the day, and then all the retellings of those encounters when we get together in the afternoon and evening. Can you even imagine, huh? Now, some folks have asked me, "Why am I doing this?" And then they ask again, w- "Why are you going again?" since this will be my fourth time on Camino. In the past, I've tried to explain it as an unction, just something that one has to do. I've tried to explain it as a spiritual adventure, sort of a calling, which I said was a God thing, something He was compelling me to do. But the other day, I got a better answer. (laughs) I was watching TV, and a commercial came on. I can't even tell you what the commercial was presenting, but I so remember the actor doing the presentation. Here on my TV was the famous Morgan Freeman pitching some product. I can't tell you what, but he had one of the best punchlines of all time. He looked at you right in the eye, the camera coming in close so you could almost feel it right where you were, and he said something like this, "It's time to start living." At least that's the way I remember it. Maybe I'll see that commercial again this weekend, pay better attention to what he actually said, but I think you get my point. It's time to start living. One of my favorite shows on public television is a travel log by Rick Steves. He goes all over Europe, seeing the sights and recording the sounds, meeting the people, encouraging his viewers to keep on traveling. For one of his shows, he went to Middle East, and he talked to young people, both Israelis and Palestinians, asking them about their lives and their hopes and dreams. He, he wasn't doing a news broadcast about the war or, or politics really, just about how they felt about life. And these young people expressed the same hopes and dreams that you have, to love and be loved, to raise a family, a- and to be at peace, and to get to that place where they too could, as Morgan Freeman said so well, to just start living. Y- you may not be on the Camino in Spain, but you are surely on a path going somewhere. M- my prayer is that you will be on that path that the Lord has for you. The, the word camino in Spanish means path, or, or better it means way. In Spain, it's called the Way of Saint James because it honors his travels across Spain to share the good news of Jesus Christ. James, you see, told the folks that Jesus Christ is the way, that they should follow Him if they wanted the peace that passes all understanding. So here's what I recommend if you wanna start living, and you don't have time to go to Spain to do it. (laughs) Go for a long walk and talk to God. Make the walk long enough that you can tell Him everything that's on your mind, everything. You'll...
June 10, 2026
It's Time to Start Living
Pastor Skip reflects on his upcoming fourth Camino walk, this time with his granddaughters, and explores what it really means to start living. He challenges listeners to take a long walk and talk honestly with God about everything on their hearts—not just what they want fixed, but all their questions, doubts, and even complaints. This is an invitation to discover the abundant life God offers as we walk His path.<br /><br />---<br /><br />Good morning, everyone, and welcome to today's edition of Camino Chronicles, where I look at some of the things that happen to us along the path of life. If I look a, a little bit dark in the screen, it's because I'm coming to you from my new apartment and haven't quite worked out the lighting yet. But anyway, you get the idea. Now, this will be my last Camino for the month of June because I'm actually leaving in a few days for Spain again to walk another Camino. And I'm rejoicing because this time, I'll be joined by two of my granddaughters. (laughs) What a wonderful blessing it is for a grandpa to get to spend such focused time with his grandkids, with all day for two weeks to discover the sights and the sounds and the people and the (laughs) foods and the countryside of Spain along the Mediterranean Sea. I'm looking forward to all the encounters during the day, and then all the retellings of those encounters when we get together in the afternoon and evening. Can you even imagine, huh? Now, some folks have asked me, "Why am I doing this?" And then they ask again, w- "Why are you going again?" since this will be my fourth time on Camino. In the past, I've tried to explain it as an unction, just something that one has to do. I've tried to explain it as a spiritual adventure, sort of a calling, which I said was a God thing, something He was compelling me to do. But the other day, I got a better answer. (laughs) I was watching TV and a commercial came on. I can't even tell you what the commercial was presenting, but I so remember the actor doing the presentation. Here on my TV was the famous Morgan Freeman pitching some product. I can't tell you what. But he had one of the best punchlines of all time. He looked at you right in the eye, the camera coming in close so you could almost feel it right where you were, and he said something like this. "It's time to start living." At least that's the way I remember it. Maybe I'll see that commercial again this weekend, pay better attention to what he actually said, but I think you get my point. It's time to start living. One of my favorite shows on public television is a travel log by Rick Steves. He goes all over Europe seeing the sights and recording the sounds, meeting the people, encouraging his viewers to keep on traveling. For one of his shows, he went to Middle East and he talked to young people, both Israelis and Palestinians, asking them about their lives and their hopes and dreams. He, he wasn't doing a news broadcast about the war or, or politics really, just about how they felt about life. And these young people expressed the same hopes and dreams that you have, to love and be loved, to raise a family, a- and to be at peace, and to get to that place where they too could, as Morgan Freeman said so well, to just start living. Y- you may not be on the Camino in Spain, but you are surely on a path going somewhere. M- my prayer is that you will be on that path that the Lord has for you. The, the word camino in Spanish means path, or, or better it means way. In Spain it's called The Way of Saint James because it honors his travels across Spain to share the good news of Jesus Christ. James, you see, told the folks that Jesus Christ is the way, that they should follow Him if they wanted the peace that passes all understanding. So here's what I recommend if you wanna start living, and you don't have time to go to Spain to do it. (laughs) Go for a long walk and talk to God. Make the walk long enough that you can tell Him everything that's on your...
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