This is part of our e-vo journey through the Gospel of John. Today is from John 3. I’m hyper-sensitive about making Christianity an emotional decision. The flowery altar calls and emotional appeals to people to “give their hearts” to Jesus that almost always follows with tears and a full range of emotions. I’ve seen a read more
This post is dedicated to Kris who is sick and I know she loves me and my ramblings on the NFL. Love you dearly, Kris!!! First Pick – Raiders… JaMarcus Russell I guess this is a good pick. The Raiders need so much help, it’s almost unfair to subject a rookie quarterback to the kind read more
BORING POST WARNING!! 1. Move ugly grey rock from the side yard and front yard to the back yard where the previous owner’s dogs practically destroyed the ground. 2. Steal/borrow/get the cool river rock from my next door neighbor’s yard and put it in my front yard. 3. Give my next door neighbor permission to read more
The roads are fine. The weather is awesome. Our parking lot is one great big mud hole. If we had youth – we’d destroy the building. So instead, we’ll destroy my house. We’ll be watching the Nuggets game (starting at 5, gets over…8ish) at my house. All are welcomed. Give me a shout if you read more
There’s over 2 feet of snow on the ground in Elizabeth. Parker got around 10 inches. Schools have closed all over the place. The sun just poked it’s head out and it’s promising to hit mid-50′s by this afternoon. The Thuggets play their second round game against the Spurs tonight and listening to talk radio read more
I’m sitting in our local Christian bookstore/coffee shop and there are a group of moms that just let their 4 year old boys loose in the store. I mean loose. They are running in circles, jumping off the stage and the moms are sitting around a coffee table oblivious to what they are doing. The read more
I got this email from Jason yesterday… Hey Bro, Went to a Campus Crusade for Christ banquet Friday night and they were talking about how God was working on the campus of the University of Arkansas. One of the things mentioned was the Band of Brothers meeting. I gave one of the leaders a copy read more
Actually, there a couple things that are official. This weekend was the candidate weekend for our new worship pastor. On one hand, I’m somewhat stunned at how fast this search went. We use a search team at Pinecrest. I like our process but it’s normally a grinding, long process. Lot’s of phone time, a couple read more
This is part of our e-vo journey through the Gospel of John. It’s also printed at studentparking.org. Today is from John 2:12-25. There was a John Wayne-fest on HDNet movies last night – The Shootist, El Dorado, and McLintock!. This is a little known fact about me – I love John Wayne. If I’m channel read more
“Love Songs of the ’70′s.” I am at a complete loss of words. [tags]Donny Osmond[/tags]
I love Sheryl Crow. I’ve always loved Sheryl Crow. I think she is awesome and I’ve forgiven her for her lack of judgement during the “Lance” years. But this is just funny. We are going to save earth by using only one square of toilet paper at a time? Let me just say – that’s read more
It’s April 20th. The 8 year “anniversary” of Columbine High School. Across the street from my house, an explosion went off at Ponderosa High School this morning. They’ve arrested someone, no one is being reported as injured. Schools across the metro area have had threats, lockdowns, sent kids home early. Students have left messages that read more
Crazy weekend ahead of us – we’ve got 7 kids in the house until Sunday night – so Ray took me out to the ballgame. Coors Field, Rockies against the Dodgers. Ray has this theory that baseball is like a worship service. You have a call to worship (National Anthem, umpire yelling “Play Ball”), an read more
They story below is entirely true. I did not ask for any further information – partly out of frustration, partly out of fear. Amy (at home on the phone): You are going to be very mad but this is just one of those times you are going to be angry at your wife. We’ll get read more
Got this email from a friend… You are a world class blogger. In the last few days I read responses to the shooting in Virginia, why being gay is better than smoking, and three or four other blog subjects and responses. Not one convinced me, not one entertained me, heck , not one even hinted read more
I’ve finally been kicked in the pants enough to e-publish this. (Thank you, Paul.) Here it is – Lifewalking. Later today – I’ll put a cool little icon for downloading on my sidebar. Lifewalking is a “rethink” for student ministry. Basically it’s about reproducing spiritual leaders who lead Life Groups and all the rabbit trails read more
The top 20 youth pastors…ironic that They are all Americans. Most are white. Most work in large, upper-middle to upper class churches. Do the people on the list even care?
This is part of our journey through the gospel of John. This week’s e-vo is from John 2. Writing on John 2 as a student pastor is a bit tricky. The main character in the story is wine, but it’s not really about the wine. Trying to explain the deeper significance to room full of read more
For the last two days I have heard nothing but how awful this weekend was going to be, how we were going to be buried in snow, and how life would shut down. We were going to get 10-12 inches of snow. Delta and United canceled some 20 flights out of DIA. Right now – read more
Rowland’s in town and he took me to a place called Cheesman Canyon. A bald eagle, a goose, and some trout. Rowland last fished here with his dad (who died 2 years ago). This was also part of the woods that was destroyed in the Hayman Fires of 2002. Over 100,000 acres of forest was read more
This situation is getting ridiculous to the point that makes me wonder if anyone in the media can see the hypocrisy. GM pulls out their sponsorship because of Imus’ words. Wonder if GM will pull out of sponsoring Warner Music Group? Who just so happens to have ‘artists’ as Lil Kim, Sugar Ray, Uncle Kracker, read more
My 4 year old Dell cratered this weekend. I’ve been dragging my feet trying to fix it. I’ve tried the easy stuff – safe mode boot, boot to the last known working configuration…doesn’t matter. Still get the wonderful blue screen. I think the myriad of kids games did it in. I think if I get read more
I understand why Rutgers, the NAACP, the state of New Jersey, CBS, MSNBC, and every other official is angry at Don Imus. His remarks were ridiculously stupid and inappropriate. Should he be fired? I’m okay with that as long as Al Sharpton, Rutgers, BET, MTV and every other organization that wants him canned can answer read more
What a great weekend. Cooper worked on his solar system project. He was to create an alien that could live in the atmospheric conditions of Neptune. This is what he came up with. I could tell you how all the stuff fits but the bottom line, Hobby Lobby is now one of Cooper’s favorite stores. read more
So I have a couple of unused lift tickets left for this ski season. I have Friday off. I have no one to go skiing with me. So I call Evan G. Actually, I call his parents. Since he’s a junior in high school, I ask permission to yank him out of school to go read more
Camber at breakfast this morning: “Dad, what’s something you can’t see and smells like Santa’s burp?” We all just sat quiet for a moment then died laughing. “You gave the punch line away, Camber! It’s supposed to be what’s something you can’t see but smells like a cookie!” She started laughing hysterically. Love my 7 read more
I’m not sure what is more embarrassing to me – my dependence on feeling “good” or the shallow means by which I measure success. Allow me to explain. We had this great ski trip that was a marker for us. Then we had Sunday morning. 15 plus students, half of whom were forced to come read more
“Grant, get up. I need your help with Camber. Get her in the shower.” That was Sunday morning. Why do kids vomit at the most inopportune times? I realize that they don’t have a lot of control over the issue so I guess my question is more in the rhetorical realm than anything else. And read more
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