the G sides

And the winner is….
Clay!!!
Great job and some link love your way. Clay is a freshman at the University of Arkansas and former Life Group Leader, world traveler, flip-flop wearing, karaoke singing stud. (Who’s going to have knee surgery next week…pray for him.)
MikeS and KrisK rounded out the top 3. One […]

I absolutely hate canceling youth.
I hate it.
It smells of defeat.
But when they start closing major highways due to ice and RTD is parking buses in backyards - it’s time to call it what it is.
So no youth tonight. I’ll go home and watch Mythbusters.

We’ve got to come up with a much shorter title but it’s descriptive. This is a fairly new “community” of youth leaders and I’m hosting the next one at Pinecrest.
The normal format at these meetings are the host feeds you, the host gives you the tour of their facilities, the host tells you how […]

So my good friend and partner in sarcasm - Wayne Galli - is coming into town next weekend.
I love this guy - even though he works way to hard and blogs not nearly enough. He and his wife Amy were awesome volunteers at Grace in Little Rock.
WARNING: RABBIT TRAIL ALERT
We had […]

The following account is true. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.
The phone rang, Amy grabbed it and after some confusion - she hands the phone to me.
“It’s for you. Sounds bad.”
“This is Grant.”
“Dude, have you gotten any of my emails?”
I immediately recognized the voice. It was Ed.
“No man, […]

This happened when we moved to Arkansas - everyone spend the year getting sick or getting other people sick. At one point back in 2002 - Cooper was a strep carrier. Lucky us. So he gave his grandparents strep - Big Tom twice - and his siblings and pretty much anyone who […]

I did our taxes this year. I hate the whole process. I mean, I don’t hate many things - even now I’m struggling to really name things I hate - but this is one of them. The kids have called tax weekend “The Funk Weekend.” For their own safety, they give […]

Went to see Amazing Grace last night - a break in the middle of my personal hell called “taxes.”
Believe the hype. It’s good - in a sense and sensibility kind of way. It’s British - so know that going in but it’s not just the story that is good - it’s how it […]

One of our elders sent me this email today and I started laughing pretty hard. Had to pass it on.
1. You must learn to pronounce the city name. It is: ‘den-ver’ not Denvah.
2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Denver has its own version of traffic rules… the […]

Amy said something last night that got me thinking - “If all of our students ever show up on the same night - this is going to be nuts.”
We’ve got around 20 students that show up on Sunday morning. Good start seeing that 3 months ago we had next to nothing.
But then […]