Pretending on Sundays

Nick (Thinking PAdre) has put up an interesting quick thought (dated: Friday, August 26, 2005) on the plight of the “associate” pastor who fills in while the “SR” is gone.
I empathize because I think it’s true. I wonder how many people are pretending to listen on a Sunday morning. I also wonder how many people [...]

Gretzky!!

While I was away at camp, the earth shifted. The universe changed. Reality was altered.
Wayne Gretzky is assigning himself as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. This changes everything. He is taking on the role knowing that the general rule is that great players don’t make great coaches but, aware of this, Gretzky intends to, once [...]

Mayfield Madness

Still recovering a bit from high school camp. I think there were a bunch of girls stampeding through my cabin at about 5 am on Saturday! Whatever…
I finished Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis really fast and will go back through it before posting on it. Currently I am still working on Andy Stanley’s “Next Generation Leader” [...]

It’s Official!

As of last Thursday night I am an official licensed minister in the Evangelical Church of North America. That means I can marry people, bury people, give them communion in church without any red tape and baptize people with the “official” blessing of the denomination. I really could have done all of those things before, [...]