I knew it was probably going to happen – but not to this extent. I forgot Kris. Kris was (and still is) the worship leader at Legacy Church where I started this crazy ride of ministry as an intern. While I was scrubbing toilets, changing ceiling tile, and mopping floors – she sat in an read more
Linda had a great comment here. So I’d thought I’d give it a whirl. First – I have to admit that I had a traumatic experience with women bosses right out of college. That’s right -plural. Not one, not two, but three. I was working for an economic development district and somehow, someway I reported read more
Zack, Arron, and I rode down to River Market last night to watch Empire Strikes Back in the ampitheatre. It was fun and all but around 10.45 – I was done. Tired, hot, and hungry. The triple threat. We saw a couple of rows of guys get kicked out for bringing alcohol. My only complaint read more
I love Aerosmith. I got a $25 gift card for iTunes from Jlo and Cindy-Lou last week. I spent it on Aerosmith but here’s my beef with iTunes – they didn’t have the full Chronicles album. So I had to piecemill my Aerosmith collection. Which isn’t an all horrible thing – got some live versions read more
Ever met someone and go “Dude….I’d love to work with him.” Now for me, it’s always a him. Why? Because if I said – “I’d like to work with her” I’d have some serious explaining to do. Plus, I’m a male chauvinist. (That was for Linda and Cathy! ha ha!) Seriously, I’ve got a list read more
Contrary to public sentiment, you don’t need a hymnal to play The Hymnal Game. You can use the Online Hymnal instead!! Maybe I’ll download them all into my iPod!!! Then again…maybe not. Which begs me to question why in the world was the Baptist Hymnal on my required BOOK list at seminary? Oh, I bought read more
We are redesigning our bulletin at Grace. Mainly because it breaks rules 1, 3, and 6. That’s just sick and wrong. Here are my completely authoritative bulletin rules. 1. It should fit in a standard sized Bible. The largerst a bulletin should ever be is 8 1/2 by 11 folded in half. 2. No clip read more
I said I wasn’t ready here to unpack all the messy-ness. This response shouldn’t be taken as exhaustive either and I reserve the right to be wrong AND change my mind. Just call me a woman! (Let the comments fly with that one….) Let it be know first and foremost that I wouldn’t want any read more
A buddy of mine called me this morning. “Hey – been to the Dilbert blog website before?” “Yeah. Probably. Well. I’m subscribed so I’d have to go there at least once to get the RSS feed.” Long pause. “What’s up?” “Well. Have you been there lately?” “Uh….no.” “Well…” This was the second “well” which never read more
Yesterday – all day planning meetings for upcoming sermon series. Very good, enjoyed it but exhausting. I love the way we plan series here at Grace. Every ministry director is in on the process. Part of the process is always going on as we are always ‘sniffing’ what is going in the body. What do read more
A movie from HBO about the life of Vivien Thomas. I’m guessing you don’t know that name but he was the man who helped start cardiac surgery. And he was black. Starring Alan Rickman and Mos Def – both delivered incredible performances. Yeah, read that again. Mos Def can most definitely act. Incredible movie, go read more
The new EA game that allows you to be the head coach of an NFL franchise. It’s a role playing game – which will be interesting to see how it does in the market. BUT the commercial is top shelf. It’s a guy and Jeff Fischer, they are arguing over whether or not to run read more
This is part of an email dialouge I’m having with a mom of girl who wants to be a youth pastor. And honestly – it’s all stuff she’s probably told her daughter before but for some reason, hearing it from someone other than your parent makes a difference. Go figure. 1. Go to college, get read more
This is from Harvard Business Weekly – thanks to Wayne for getting me to subscribe to this. There have been some awesome articles come through this. This talks about the need for constant, vulnerable communication for an executive team in a business to function well. If you are in charge/responsible for leading any kinds of read more
I’m a D. Wade fan. Love him. Think he will be better than Jordan and a lot more humble about it. But he wasn’t fouled. If Shack and Djop can bang bodies like they do and nothing is called – the phantom “hit him in the leg” wasn’t a foul. I’m glad he made the read more
Here they are. Blogs I read. If you don’t like the category you’re stuck in OR I somehow forgot to link you OR you want to be linked… drop a comment. And Cat – there is no category for you. You and Chuck Norris are categories by yourselves.
Feedblitz is seriously behind on the email subscription. I’m talking DAYS. It’s free – so on one hand be thankful, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. On the other hand…it’d be nice if it was on the same day. I’m about to punt it and go back to Feedburner. I’ll give it this read more
Amy ran to the mall. $$$ It’s pouring down rain which means free trips to the park and pool are out. We’re home…it’s getting loud and they want to look at pictures. Done. And help Strong Bad check his email. Done. And Camber wanted me to put these pictures the blog. Done. And they want read more
So I thought I’d finally get my links page all fixed and ready to go when this problem presents itself… Categorizing links. This is getting ridiculous not helped by the fact that my reading is all over the place. I read Mark Cuban’s blog, Scott Adams (Dilbert) along with Brother Maynard’s. I’ve got blogs that read more
Dwyane or Duane or Dwayne or D-Wayne or however you spell it…. He’s a beast. I’d like to see him and Chuck Norris tangle. He’s only like 12 years old too.
This morning I listened to Mark Driscoll’s sermon “Paying Your Pastors” that he threw down last week. I’ve heard these stats before but hearing them all in the same place was stunning. Especially in light of the sermon I’m prepping for this week. The stats on Pastors… 1,500 leave the ministry a month (Top reasons read more
Chuck Norris knows the last digit of pi. The chemical formula for the highly toxic cyanide ion is CN-. These are also Chuck Norris’ initials. This is not a coincidence. Chuck Norris’ pulse is measured on the richter scale. Chuck Norris has counted to infinity. Twice.
I’m running staff meetings at the church now. (One of the joys of being the last pastor standing, I guess.) I can’t stand meetings, honestly. I love hanging, but not meeting. “But we need meetings to take care of business and details.” No. My mom raised3 (at times 5) of us complete with sports, church, read more
My father in law sent me this in response to the Chuck Norris post. The World According to Jack Bauer If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Jack Bauer spared your life. In chess, Jack Bauer can checkmate you in one move. If everyone on “24″ followed Jack Bauer’s instructions, it would be read more
Alright – I’m surfing during one of the many commercial breaks during the Mavs-Heat game – which I’ll blog about next – and I zip by the lame Christian channels but hear a familiar voice. I know that voice. That voice has done some youth camps and retreats I’ve done. That voice is….is Israel Houghton. read more
I’m sick of the NBA Cares campaign. The NBA cares so much for their communities that they will schedule a one-day photo op for its stars and owners and coaches showing them hanging out an elementary school or hospital for a couple of hours….a year. We’re not that stupid, NBA. I’m sick of the sideline read more
I first saw these on jordoncooper.com, so he is getting the ht. But the full-meal deal is here. WARNING: DO NOT GO TO THIS WEBSITE IF YOU ARE ON A LADDER, DRINKING DR. PEPPER, OR OPERATING ANY KIND OF MACHINERY THAT REQUIRES YOU TO KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AND FREE OF TEARS. IF YOU HAVE read more
The alarm went off at 6.15 AM. Yes – you read that right – AM, in the morning, not in the night. Four of us met for almost 2 hours. It was refreshing. It’s an 8 week tune-up/refresher for me. Get in community with people who love you but aren’t impressed with you. Get in read more
This just in – The Eastern Conference of the NBA has been traded for the WNBA. If there was any doubt that the Western Conference is in a different league than the Eastern, that was answered last night. What happens when Dallas plays horribly? They win by 10. What happens when the play lights out read more
I hate to disagree with a doctore, but Texas is not God’s country. Not when it hits 101 before lunch. Dallas is all gussied up for the Finals – Dirk at Work shirts, Nowitziville, Go Mavs everywhere. We hit Spring Creek Bar-B-Q and saw Cars. Loved Cars. Some reviews are saying it wasn’t as good read more
So I’m in a lunch appointment today and Amy calls…twice. I know it’s important. “Hey, wanna go to Dallas and see Tommy?” Tommy would be her brother in the country for a short time for some medical tests on his son. So, after lunch I came home, the car was packed, Hotwire got our room….. read more
I’m not a huge Shaq fan but if the man could shoot at least 60% from the free throw line – I’d argue that he would be the best player to ever play the game…even MJ. He’s just a beast and this year he’s proven that when he is in shape, he’s freakin’ unstoppable. His read more
I’m not even going to preview it – just take the kids. Has Pixar made a bad movie yet? No. Will this be the letdown? Maybe. But an average movie from Pixar (a bugs life) is still better than 90% of the garbage out there. I love the tag line and wish I had seen read more
For only the second time in 18 years beer has been knocked off the number 1 ‘in’ thing on a college campus. I’m not too surprised by this. Beer fell all the way to second place. Oh how the mighty have fallen. On a semi-related topic – will iPod and XM spell the end of read more
Well I changed the email subscription service from Feedburner to Feedblitz. What I liked about Feedburner is keeping it all together and aesthetically – their email package looked better than Feedblitz’s. I love the color orange as much as anybody – Go Broncos – but a big orange square as the header is not all read more
Just took the “Leading From Your Strengths” test online. Our team at Grace is going to go through it. No real shocks here – I’m off the scale as a Lion and Otter, bottom of the barrel as a retriever and beaver. What does that mean? At best, I’m these things: Grant is good at read more
While it is still mind-blowing that most surfers of the net and readers of blogs don’t use RSS, Feedburner has a cool little tool for them as well. Get a feed delivered in the inbox!! Check it out on the sidebar. Wayne – this is what you were looking for right? WP has a couple read more
I’m sitting in my office yesterday and two students swing by to say hey and go fishing at the pond on our property. 40 minutes later, they are both back in my office. “Uh, Grant. We need a little help here.” I turn around and see Student A with a crawdad lure stuck in his read more
You can read Mark’s long comment here…. Before those of you read this and think that Mark and I hate each other – it’s quite the opposite. I’d trust Mark with my family. He’s an awesome friend and great guy. He’s probably one of the best disciplers of teenagers I’ve ever been around. If everyone read more
Mark E’s comment here got me thinking. The whole idea of pathology will win out is one of those biological prinicples that translates into spiritual issues. (Or vice versa.) Jesus said something similiar to this when he said “Out of the overflow of the heart a mouth speaks.” Quit worrying about the outside of the read more
There’s a church down the road from us that is doing a “Church Emergent-CY” Conference. I’m half-tempted to go but it’s my birthday weekend and I’ve got other things I need to do. Besides, I’m reluctant to spend 2 days listening to people bash the emergent church movement as if it is the greatest danger read more
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