You can’t think outside of a box

I’ve got this guys cartoon blog on my list. One today I really liked.
I don’t believe in thinking outside of a box. However, there are some boxes that I prefer to keep out of…
Click on the pic to check out his site.

Diane’s pregnant.

I’ve used that phrase in mixed company a few times over the past 2 weeks. It’s usually welcomed with shouts and joy and that has felt wonderful.
I haven’t said it here because I wanted to tell my parents and my brother’s family face to face over the holidays.
Diane has already posted on the details of [...]

Feedin’ the PEEPS!!!

There’s a lot of references in the New Testament to feeding people as an act of love. Jesus tells the sheep they fed Him when they fed the hungry; Jesus tells Peter to feed His sheep when He reinstates him.
Lot of eating going on around Jesus…
One of the things I want our youth ministry [...]

Live tomorrow night – On the RADIO!

Tomorrow night (Saturday the 17th) I’ll be hitting the airwaves of our local Christian station WCTL to be on “Cereal for Supper.” I’ll have a couple of our senior highs with me and we’ll be tasting over 9 different various cereals and offering witty and entertaining comments on them from 7pm-10pm.
That’s going to be a [...]

Faith

Faith:Confidence or trust in a person or thing; Belief that is not based on proof.For a few reasons, the issue of faith has been on my mind the past few months. It’s come up in a number of venues I’m involved in and it’s pushed me to ponder the idea of having faith in [...]

We will move? We are MOVING!

My sanctuary has become the wilderness. It’s easiest for me to find God there.
This past week began a week of “lasts” here at Grace. At the last senior high youth group here we circled up to pray and thanked God for our collective past, for the history He’s writing that we find ourselves a part [...]

Grace is people getting close to each other

During the first Servant Summit (Our periodic gathering of volunteers) Derek said something to us all that has stuck with me. He made the comment of how some people may comment that we’re all about numbers, getting bigger and bigger. His reply went something like, “We are absolutely about numbers, because every number represents a [...]

WWJB?!?!

My next career move will to become the youth pastor at this church.

More on a new kind of small group…

I posted about a new kind of small group last week and wanted to follow it up to show where the thinking led.
After Diane and I had gotten our thoughts down on paper I had lunch with our small group leader, Dan, to get his input. The one big change I remember he wanted to [...]