Shuffle

This is just fun to keep focused; I put my music on my computer on shuffle I am going to write down the first couple lines from every song. It should say something about me, right?
1. Oh Lord have mercy on me / According to your unfailing love
2. we’re at the crossroads my [...]

Small Groups promo

I thought this was a great and funny way for a church to be promoting small groups (which they call gel groups).

MMC – Sept 29, 2008

weekend in review: Friday morning I went for a run in the freezing cold. It was horrid on my knees, they hurt a bunch. I figure they never warmed up. So, too make this better I spent 10 of the next 24 hours sitting in one position behind the wheel of [...]

Good to Great Parenting

So today as I left LJ’s school after droping him off I was walking back out to my minivan (which is my cultural ticket to the underground world of PTA) there were two things that struck me.
First, the moms don’t say hello to me.  Perhaps they are intimidated by my striped hoodie of super-cool thick [...]

Monday Morning Check-In September 22 2008

weekend in review: Heather was away this weekend for the SACC women’s retreat.  So, we’re both a little spent.  The kids and I did our first round of Hallowe’en shopping.  Many Christian families don’t buy into  Halowe’en, and that’s cool, but we do.  In an illogical sense, if consumerism has destoryed Christmas, then if you [...]

God is in the business…

Partly as a tribute to the Stuff Christians Like blog, I need to get this out there…
God is in the business of…(googled)

changing lives
giving us a future
opening and shutting doors
raising dead congregations to life again
shattering expectations
doing the impossible
dealing with our unrighteous rebellion and our self-righteous religion by offering us genuine righteousness through a relationship (that one [...]

Hohensee, Your Spiritual Gifts

I haven’t posted a lot of book reviews lately, but I have been reading. I have a stack that I need to go through, and I am reading again for school, so there’ll be a bunch in the next while. First up, A book on Spiritual Gifts by Hohensee and Odell. Don [...]

Monday Morning Check-In September 15 2008

weekend in review: Heather was away for her Grandmother’s funeral this weekend. So, it was DaddyFunTime all weekend long. We washed the car, bought a soccer ball and played at SAHS, went shopping for a new toilet seat and I finished reading a book. It was a good weekend, but we’re [...]

Encouragement from Francis Chan

i neeeed to pick up Francis Chan’s new book CrazyLove. I heard/read of his speaking last year and just love seeing someone who is out there were I love to be. Today I happened upon this great video blog of his and wanted to include this one:

For those of [...]

Teachable

Will Willamon is the Methodist bishop of Alabama.  He is a spendidly wonderful speaker who brings radical truth into people’s lives with so much grace that he can be confrontive with Word of God, yet have people be appreciative of it.
Today I read a great post from Willamon’s blog.  He speaks in terms of the [...]