A-Team Stuff FYI: I’m venturing to write this as a boss would about an employee…not as a smitten husband would about his hot wife. So… Sharon’s a juggernaut. At the moment, she’s 9 months pregnant…and she still gets more done in a given day than most do in a week. I understand that this isn’t the [...]
A Little Extra Touch
I’ve had some folks ask for quotes and resources from this past Sunday’s sermon. We kicked off a new series that’ll cover some of the personal interactions in Jesus’ ministry. So, here are the quotes from this past Sunday, and a list of my primary resources so far: Mother Teresa: “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, [...]
The A-Team
Pretty pumped about the movie. I don’t have high expectations about it being particularly good, but I have such great memories connected to the ragtag crew of highly talented social misfits who didn’t really fit anywhere, so they banded together. They remind me of the staff at the church I pastor. Not as individual characters, [...]
Living on the edge.
I can’t stand that arcade game with the quarters that get pushed to the edge (but rarely off). I can almost feel the tension of those coins hovering over the edge waiting to fall, but somehow, against all odds, they manage to hang on. The game somehow defies the laws of physics, it spits in [...]
Vision for 100
One year ago I accepted a challenge from Michael Gatlin. It boiled down to this (paraphrasing wildly): “Set a goal for how many people will be led to Christ through the ministry of your church in the next year. Be bold about it, and then have the guts to tell your church about it, and [...]
An Ode to Sharon
So, there are plenty of hack poets out there…ones who either can’t get past stating the obvious with a string of cliches or somehow can’t resist the temptation to rhyming ‘love’ and ‘dove.’ That’s me. I’m a hack poet. My dad, on the other hand, is legit. He recently wrote a poem for Sharon (my [...]
Are Christians Intolerant? (3 of 3)
Does the radical tolerance I talked about in the previous post in this series mean that Christians have to be pansies? Pushovers? Willing victims? Sometimes when see texts like the following, we wonder: Matthew 5:39-41: If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if someone wants to sue you [...]
