Tailgates & Toilets

So check this past week out…
-Last Friday I get rear-ended cause a woman hits the guy behind me and he runs into me. The bottom of the rear van door is crushed. It’ll take more than $4,500 and up to three weeks to fix. Her insurance covers it all.
-We finally get around to calling [...]

Loving the Anti-Human

So I finished reading Dean Karnazes’ book Ultramarathon Man in a record 6 days. I think that’s a personal record or something. It’s an amazing book that just may have pushed me over the edge to running a marathon. Anyone want to join me?
But it’s something I read a few weeks ago that keeps echoing [...]

Why do people leave the church?

This is a research project from a couple of Fuller Seminary students.

From the site:

People leave churches for many reasons. Some leave frustrated and hurt. Some leave simply because they have moved out of the area. Some people even leave church because they see church involvement as a hindrance to their faith and spiritual growth. [...]

Service as Spiritual Formation

A big goal on my personal success map is to do some more reading; personally and ministry-wise. I just finished 2 books and am getting started on a leadership one and another about Dean Karnazes, the ultra-marathoner guy.
One of the books I finished was Pagitt’s Church Re-Imagined. The last chapter is about spiritual formation (or [...]

Darth Nelder & Me

A new thing I’ve been exposed to at Grace has been the use of a “success map” for goal setting. I’ve been in organizations that have used goal setting before but they’ve never used any “goal evaluation” process which kind of makes the former useless. I’ve found it so helpful that I went ahead [...]

On Hair…

I feel a need to offer an explanation about my hair.

I see hair as a plaything. This can be seen in how I treat my facial hair. I’ve shaved it, permed it (permed mullets are okey dokey (or at least thery were at one point in the 80’s)), dyed it, and have had “tails” [...]

Georgia (and Habitat for Humanity) On My Mind

All the TV’s at the Y today had reports of damage from the tornadoes in the south. One town that was hit particularly hard was Americus, home of Habitat for Humanity.

I went there several times on mission trips in high school and college. The pic above is of there former international headquarters that I got [...]