the G sides

I prayed with a family this morning who’s dad will face cancer surgery in a few hours.
I’ll grab his kids for lunch today. We’ll eat tacos and burritos, laugh, get serious for a bit. We’ll talk about stuff both meaningful and trivial. We’ll pray.
I used to call a […]

This is part of a weekly e-vo series through the New Testament book of Acts. Today is from Acts 3.
The man who was crippled since birth…it’s said that he was a fixture at the Beautiful Gate. How many times did Jesus pass that gate? How many times had this guy seen or heard […]

It’s been a crazy weekend. Preached one of the most difficult sermons I’ve preached in a while - on Noah and the Ark. It’s a hard story because it calls into question the goodness of God. To be honest to the story - you gotta deal with it. (If you want […]

After church yesterday, Rowland and I took off for Breckenridge to meet Wayne Sheldrake, author of Instant Karma. Wayne was doing a book signing.
Great to meet him and actually had a chance to sit down and talk with him for 45 minutes. He loves the NFL and skiing and his family. […]

I met Mke Yaconelli at a Youthworkers Convention all the way back in 1999…or was it 2000? I can’t really remember. I remember I was wrestling with the frustrations of being a clueless youth pastor. I bumped into him in the Expo hall. Either I really looked depressed or the discernment […]

This is part of a weekly e-vo series through the New Testament book of Acts. Today is from Acts 2.
Much is made of speaking in tongues. Some call it a special language, others call it blabbering. Clearly the phenomenon here is neither of these things. In fact, Luke is very clear that […]

A memoir by Billy “You Look Mahhvelous” Crystal. Crystal’s dad died when he was 15 years old and he figured out he only had 700 Sundays with him. Sundays were the family day - the day at the beach, to play baseball, to see the Yankees, to eat Chinese food. […]

This is part of a weekly e-vo series I’m doing through the New Testament book of Acts. Today is from Acts 1.
Jesus ascends into heaven and everyone is probably standing there mouths open looking straight up in the air. I wonder what freaked them out more - Jesus zipping off in the air […]

Ever notice how one bad decision can snowball into about 15 more? Now put that theory to test on Everest at over 29,000 feet in the middle of a blizzard. That’s this book.
Jon Krakauer tries to make sense of the tragedy on Everest in 1996 with this book. That task alone is […]

Everybody loves grilled cheese sandwiches but we never order them out, do we? Why is that?
Money? I mean does it really cost 4.95 to make a grilled cheese sandwich?
Rep? What if someone sees me eating this in public?
Standard of Excellence? Some places don’t put enough butter on the bread […]