I need some help. Campus Crusade for Christ is having a leadership conference in Croatia for all of their missionaries in Eastern Europe. It’s from July 1-15th. These kids of these families will have their own tract to follow. That’s where I come in. I’ve been asked to lead the teenager tract. Do some leadership read more
This is part 2 of my notes from the Beautiful Day Conference. Steve Clifford is the Lead Pastor of Westgate Church in San Jose, CA. When Steve got to Westgate, he simply asked 4 questions: What do we do well? What are we trying to do? What are we not doing at all and why? read more
This is part 1 of my notes from the Beautiful Day Conference. John Talbert is the founder of Beautiful Day. He’s also the compassion pastor at Westgate. He’s got some cool name other than compassion pastor, but I can’t remember what it is. Common Grace – you don’t have to be a Christ-follower to be read more
I’m working on the notes from the Beautiful Day Conference. I’ll get them out next week but since Frontier canceled our flights home on Thursday night, we had an extra day. Row and I decided to enjoy a day in San Fran. AM Hit antique guitar store (Guitar Showcase). Lot’s of incredible guitars – Stevie read more
Had some free time before the conference so Row and I got in Ironman. What a cool ride. Great movie, great themes, great action, great acting. I hate halloween but if I liked it – I’d be Ironman for it. If you go see it – stay till the VERY END of the credits. You read more
Rowland and I are in San Jose for the Beautiful Day Conference. BD is about emptying the church and unleashing compassion. Click on the site to read more. The conference should be good – Dan Kimball, Len Sweet are on the docket – but I’m actually more pumped about some time to rethink and re-imagine read more
Our church rented out a theater to see Prince Caspian today. Believe the hype. It’s that good. If you’re a huge C.S. Lewis fan, you will love the way the director tells the story – not giving all the details of why certain things are going on early in the film. I love the fact read more
I’ve had a pain in my heel for the last month or so and like a real man, I’ve not gone to the doctor for it. The theory went something like this – I probably hurt it during ski season at some point. I took about a month after the season to see if it read more
After reading Into Thin Air, Robert encouraged me to read more of Krakauer’s works. Into the Wild is the story of Chris McCandless and his journey towards an “examined life.” He graduates from college, gives away all his money and sets across the country – into the wild. The shocking thing about the book is read more
I’ve been neglectful in my postings of the season. Okay – the bad news – we’ve yet to win a game. Good news: We’re scoring touchdowns, throwing deep passes, getting safeties with double blitzes, running a hurry-up offense. Bad news: It appears that it is next to impossible for a 9 year old to go read more
This is part of our e-journey through the book of Acts. This week is from Acts 14. That probably wouldn’t work as a bumper sticker but it’s true. I can’t get through Acts without that fact slapping me in the face. And it has been a slap. Ever been to a place where a value read more
We have 4 Confabs a year for our Life Group Leaders. “Confab” is short for “confabulation.” So as leaders we set aside 4 nights a year to eat and connect with each other for encouragement, sharpening, and to hear life-change stories from other Life Groups. Last Thursday night was our last one of the ministry read more
I guess at some point this whole Car Classification will have it’s own category on my blog. To catch you up…here’s the saga so far. First there was the story on My New Ride and all the comments therein. Next, we tried to get some handles on what exactly made a car manly, chick, or read more
My knowledge of Chuck Yeager went something like this – the guy that sold AC Delco batteries, then I learned he first broke the sound barrier. I watched the movie “The Right Stuff” to learn how influential he was in the testing of rocket engines. Stuff I’ve learned since then? He was a World War read more
In the ongoing saga to clear up the classification of cars, we come to the issue of cowballs. As noted earlier, these are commonly found on the rear hitch of a monster truck – almost always an American made truck. I’ve actually seen a set on a mini-van. It was amusing and depressing. Camber: “Daddy…what read more
This is part of our journey through Acts. Today is from Acts 13. The highlights: Barnabas and Saul are confirmed as missionaries. John Mark decides to go with them. Saul changes his name to Paul. John Mark goes home in the middle of the trip. (We’ll come back to this later.) Paul starts debating Jesus read more
Marko gets the props to this find – a blog that has taken Garfield out of the Garfield strips. This is the description from the website: Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation read more
The Bears meltdown last year could be linked to one thing and one thing only – the quarterback position. They went from being a couple plays out of the Super Bowl to the bottom of the NFC North. How? They couldn’t hold on to the ball, couldn’t move the ball, couldn’t put points on the read more
There’s manly vehicles. There’s ‘chick’ vehicles. Then – according to Wayne (I’d link him but he hasn’t blogged in 14 years) – there’s ‘metro-sexual’ vehicles. It’s fair to ask what exactly makes Wayne an expert in such issues. I’ll allow him to answer that in the comments section below. (This should be fascinating.) I think read more
I never imagined that my post on the Xterra would generate such a landslide of comments. It’s quickly becoming one of the most popular things on the G sides. (That’s either awesome or a brutal critique of how mature we are over here.) Over the next few days, I will tackle the important questions raised read more
I stole this from Tom Peter’s blog. It has MASSIVE implications for those of us who lead in the Church. He’s got 10 on his list. Here are the ones that are sticking to me. 2. Remember. You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular read more
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