“We” aka Pinecrest Church are having one tonight. In fact, as I type there is a flurry of activity getting ready for it. The highlight for me? A lady is here cooking brats. (Not brats, like your kids are acting like brats but brats like bratwursts.) There is also a pony ride which really isn’t read more
So, here’s the goods from Mike Riley as I lost my bet: The Game I won’t evaluate him until he’s done with his career, but I guarantee you one thing: He amazes me. He amazes me, just his leadership qualities and his sense of urgency, the way he reads defenses. -Mike Shanahan (source) Yeah, me read more
Cooper is my new hero. Okay, he’s always been my hero but my appreciation for him went up about 10 notches this weekend. First, he’s been sick all weekend. Not strep but something is living in his lungs and makes him sound like Darth Vader. Second, we went to Breckenridge this weekend and he never read more
I emailed with two good friends today who are in the middle of making incredibly difficult decisions. I feel for them. We’ve made our share of hard decisions…everybody has. Nobody is immuned from hard decisions. Here’s what I’m learning though. Looking back at some of the hard decisions, they don’t seem so hard on this read more
12 inches of snow!!! Absolutely gorgeous and people don’t freak out here. Nice change. Camber thinks it snowed just because it was her birthday. She’s right.
Indy plays the Broncos this weekend. Anyone at Pinecrest need a friend to go with them to the game? As a bet, Mike Riley and I have wagered a “guest blog” on the game. Winner gets to blog on the other’s site. So G sides readers – get ready to read a rant from Riley read more
We’ve got an offer on our house, we made one on a house here. Both are accepted and signed. Scheduled the movers. Now the slow, painful wait to closing day – Nov 17th for the house on Old Spanish Trail. On top of all of that trying to build a youth team. The danger in read more
We started out sledding in the backyard but that didn’t last long. We had to find more snow. And a hill. Turns out that the snow was easy to find but a hill proved a bit more difficult. Cooper said he wished we could have our hill that we lived on in Little Rock in read more
Dinner tonight, Camber was “waxing eloquently” about growing up. I honestly don’t want her to grow up right now. She’s the perfect age and such a fun girl to be around. Alas, she gave me some of her wisdom tonight. “Dad, I don’t wanna go to college. I wanna stay home with you….(dramatic pause while read more
I’m answering the phone this week and someone asks for the “owner of your business.” I paused…”Well, God owns us but he doesn’t exactly office here.” Silence on the other end. Finally – “Is the owner there?” “God technically is here everyday. We are a church, so He owns us and yes, you can talk read more
Podcasting…. Student Parking – The Podcast is now on iTunes. Click on the pic to subscribe through iTunes. I promise you it will be at best the 2nd best 20 minutes of your week. It’s in the sidebar of Student Parking right now, I’ll put in my sidebar later this weekend. In fact – I’ve read more
Back in 1925 (I think) U.S. Open Bobby Jones gave himself a one stroke penalty because he touched his ball. He ended up losing the ’25 U.S. Open by…one stroke. (I watched the movie, don’t think I’m this great golf historian…) He said he’d rather have his integrity than the trophy. Fast forward to 2006 read more
I’ve gotten a couple of emails about this so I thought I just throw down a little post about it. Plugins I’d Die Without…or least think I would die… 1. Tiger Style Admin What it does – makes the “behind the scene” layout incredibly clean and easy to navigate. 2. WP Flickr Post Bar What read more
It’s snowing here today. I love the snow. It makes me happy. Not the giddy, school-girl giggling kind of happy – just…content. And it’s a good thing it’s snowing today. We sold our house – for a lot less than we wanted but more than what we paid for it. My power supply went out read more
Not all the kinks are out – and we are going to be adding writers to it – but Pinecrest Student Ministry (or should we call it Pinecrest Ministry to Students…think acronyms) has a new site – studentparking.org. Check it out. I just left my first weekly evo there. I’m going to rope in the read more
Broncos 13, Raiders 3. I’m supposed to be happy, right? Bronco-land is supposed to be thrilled to be 4-1, right? I’m not…here’s why… 1. The Raiders are terrible. They are without a doubt the worse organization in pro football – possibly all of professional sports. They are below pond scum. And they could have beat read more
Wanna talk about time warp? I look up this morning at Pinecrest and standing in front of me is a woman that I hadn’t seen in at least 17 years. She was a dear family friend and Sunday School teacher when I was 7 years old. Remember the running the church story? She was there. read more
I love going to museums – these kinds of museums are the best. As a sidenote – I found great humor in the “Journey to the Dinosaurs” promo film that touted evolution and all things Darwin while on the floor below it was the exhibit “Hall of Life.” The opening walls to the Hall of read more
I wanted to follow-up to this post. I’ve gotten some great off-line emails as well as online comments but I want to land the plane by talking to people who are “top level” or “senior leaders” at their organization or church. There is no higher value of the people that work for you than your read more
I’ve got a few friends who are in the middle of ministry hell right now. If you ask them in unguarded moments, they will tell you that if they could do any other job right now they would. The past 6 months, I’ve talked with about 8 different pastors that are telling the same story. read more
But it does make you wonder how long it took them to burn it up, doesn’t it? Tonight was the first of what I hope is many late Wednesday nights. 6-square and wall-ball was played, movie clips were watched, and volunteers got to dig into some teens’ lives. A couple of things that never really read more
After tonight’s ugly win against Baltimore, here are my thoughts on the Broncos so far… 1. This year’s Broncos look like last year’s Chicago Bears. All defense and pray to God that the offense doesn’t lose the game for you. That’s good enough to get to the playoffs, but I’m not sure it’s good enough read more
Amy calls me today. “Okay, this is ridiculous.” What? “The milk cartons at the kids new school have the Broncos on them.” Hey – I told you, this town IS the Denver Broncos. Watching the ugly game tonight with other Bronco fans was crazy. They were just as animated and loud as I am. One read more
What’s the next best thing to seeing Alabama beating Auburn? Seeing Auburn choke against an unranked opponent. My dad said it would – Auburn would get ranked high and for some reason they lose their brains in that altitude. There is only one major downside of this game…now I’m going to have to hear how read more
Besides being a great name for a real estate agency or a law firm – that’s what our family did today. Red Rocks Perhaps the greatest venue of all time for a concert. If you go, couple of “don’t miss” features. First, is the Interactive Hall of Fame of Red Rocks. It’s located at the read more
I was thinking about a lot of stuff today… I’ve got a list of things I want to see happen before Christmas concerning the student ministry at Pinecrest. I’ve got nights in October, November, and December set aside to lifewalk with my new crew of crazy volunteers. I’ve got ideas, plans, desires, goals, and drive read more
You learn a lot when you move. Like cell phones. We don’t have a land line. Haven’t had one in years. Alltel has wonderful coverage (at least in Arkansas) so no biggie. Then we moved to Denver. And the house we are staying in – we can’t get a signal. At my office – can’t read more
Played dodgeball… at 6500 feet above sea level. Let’s do some math, shall we? Out of shape Grant + overweight Grant + 6,500 ft above sea level + dodgeball = lungs imploding in fireball inside chest. Other than that, it was great. We’ve met so many people…it’s going to take months to sort out the read more
If you are a student pastor or work with youth – you must go now and read Greg Fess’s work on this article. It’s about youth ministry in the next 50 years. Here’s what he says that just sums it all up for me: Sure – there will be ministries on hype, built upon Jesus read more
Harry sent me an insulting but accurate email. The new international sign for choking is this: Nice work but here is what is more disturbing…Alabama is becoming Vanderbilt. Nobody wants to really play Vanderbilt. Why? Because for 3 quarters they beat the heck out of you, outplay you, outhustle you. But if you stick around read more
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