Sacrificing my body

I got this in an email from an old Young Life buddy.
I can’t get it out of my head.
“If you offered your body as a living sacrifice to God each day in a real way, what would that entail?”
“If we are doing any less, are we living for Jesus?”

I want to run really far and raise a lot of money

I called my ultra-marathon running buddy Pat on Wednesday to see if he wanted to run together this Saturday. After telling me he’d be away with his family he asked me, “Have you thought about running the endurance run?”
He was referring to the Presque Isle Endurance Classic. It’s a pretty simple race. The Erie Runner’s [...]

The old golden rule used to be, “When in doubt, gross ‘em out”…

I have the opportunity to win my youth group a party at a tricked out youth center. It’s at a special fundraising event at a local professional sports team’s game to raise money and food for the homeless.
All I have to do is win a cereal eating contest.
I can tell you right now that IF [...]

Say hello to Mr. Mustache

I change facial hair about as often as I change Mckenzie’s diapers… about once a week
I’ve only done the mustache once though; about 12 years ago for a week or 2. This doesn’t include the few times I’ve done the Fu-Manchu.
Inspired by the following I’ve grown one again:

This is part of the ad [...]

How much should you know about the Bible?

I’m cruising through a book called, “The Year of Living Biblically” by A.J. Jacobs. He’s an agnostic going through a type of spiritual mid-life crises that decided to live by all the rules in the Bible for a year. It’s been extremely good and stimulating.
It has occured to me though that this agnostic may know [...]

Mckenzie is here!

Mckenzie popped out yesterday at 7:47am at 8 pounds 3 ounces and 20.5 inches long.
The labor and delivery went extremely well! Less than 7 hours total and about 5 minutes of pushing.
Here’s some pics we took over the course of yesterday…

10 Things you can like about $4 gas

Time has the whole article here.
Here’s their list which is very interesting. Especially the four-day workweek. Click on the item and the page will pop up.
1. Globalized jobs return home
2. Sprawl stalls
3. Four-day workweeks
4. Less pollution
5. More frugality
6. Fewer traffic deaths
7. Cheaper insurance
8. Less traffic
9. More cops on the beat
10. Less obesity

What’s the win for speaking?

I gave the message during our services last week for the first time here at Grace. It’s something that I do so infrequently that I have a very difficult time handling it. I’m awkward in my preparation, I worry if I can communicate effectively to an adult audience, I don’t know what to do the [...]