When it was announced a few months ago that our lead pastor, Dennis, was going to be moving on and we would be getting sent a new pastor (I work in a United Methodist church), it was bittersweet. Dennis has been an extraordinary mentor and visionary that has challenged me and grown our church [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘faith’
March 26, 2008
Anne Rice’s Easter message
I read this Monday morning and forgot to link to it. Anne Rice was one of my favorite authors in high school for two reasons: one, I was a nerd who liked to read about vampires and two, she was one of the best fiction writers out there. Her story of coming (returning) to faith [...]
March 18, 2008
Clutter
I’m currently waging a war against clutter.
Not messiness. I’m talking about the stuff that sits around filling up space that you look at and say, “Look at all that clutter.” The dictionary defines clutter in one way as “to make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects.” The problem the stuff [...]
March 13, 2008
taking the hits…
The total amount of times in the last three days that I’ve been told that someone thinks my student ministry is a cult: four
seriously?
February 18, 2008
Where Amazing Happens…
I’ve been watching the clip of Dwight Howard’s Superman dunk (you can find it in my last post) over and over because it just seems unreal to me that a human body can do that. The most recent time I watched it, the announcers kept enthusiastically repeating a simple phrase that I can only [...]
