I Love Halloween!

There… I said it. Halloween was one of the greatest times when I was a kid. I have tons of memories of my brother Kurt and I Trick-or-Treating with our dad. My dad made it awesome!
(Remember how we trid to trick Uncle Willie every year Dad? I’ll never ever forget that! And he always gave [...]

Who Is Grace?

My guess is that I first stepped foot in Grace in the last months of 1988 when I came to Erie to meet my then girlfriend’s family. It was a lot different back then. I was a lot different back then.
As my then college girlfriend, Diane, became something much more serious, I made repeated trips [...]

A New Kind of Small Group

Last summer Diane and I sat down to do some thinking about adult small groups. It stemmed from some past experiences and some things that we’d been reading that made us “itchy” for something different in how adult small groups are done. It’s led to something, that so far, has been very interesting.
But before I [...]

Getting closer to God through the principle of progressive resistance

Around this time four years ago I’d be hitting the weight room after about 6 months of throwing. It was great like that because just when I’d be getting sick of throwing it would be time for living in the weight room for the winter. And… just when I’d be sick of living in the [...]

Christian image is turning youths off

Very interesting article from San Antonio about some findings in Barna’s new book…
“The Christian community’s ability to take the high road and help to deal with some of the challenges that this (anti-gay) perception represents may be the … defining response of the Christian church in the next decade.”

You never know what your relatives are going to do…

This what my brother does: This is what I’ve done: I just found out our cousin did this:I’m having a hard time seeing the family resemblance…
Skylene will represent West Virginia in the Miss USA pageant in April.

What would happen if you followed all those rules in the Bible for a year? Well for one you’d need a haircut and a shave when it’s all done!

Here’s part of the mini-interview with this guy:
What rule was the hardest to follow?

Two kinds of rules were hard. Avoiding sins we commit every day like lying, gossiping and coveting was hard, and then there were the rules that were hard to do in modern life, like stoning adulterers. But I did manage to fulfill [...]

Weekend workout update and movie review

Well I did all 30.2 miles. Doing the 17 in the morning wasn’t too bad. I probably should have eaten a little more while I was running that part because I think it caught up to me when I went back out to do the 13.2. I ended up with about 3:45 in between the [...]

The Weekend Workout

In the tradition of my good friend Brian’s blog, The Weekend Gamer, and how he posts what he’s going to play that weekend and follows it up on Monday with how it went, I’m going to start posting my weekend workouts.
For those of us that aren’t actually training for anything, the weekend, with it’s bit [...]

Retreat & Renew

I blogged about doing this back in July. A few weeks ago I decided to get serious about it and scheduled a little retreat for myself today. I decided to skip working out and my usual Friday routine and retreat for about 6 hours to Presque Isle. I came up with a few things I [...]