So far this week, I’ve had the joy and privilege of participating in two worship services that were not at Journey but were highly significant. Briefly… Sunday morning, our church was invited by Revival Center Church to worship with them. RCC is a predominately African-American church led by a good minister friend of mine, Michael [...]

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars by Mark Batterson   Mark Batterson is the founding pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. Carolyn and I missed the opportunity to attend when we were there two years ago. It’s a unique church that [...]

I am loving Twitter. I am an unabashed Twaddict. I play with my Twitter daily. And I Twinkle on my iPhone occasionally.  Twitter users will know what I’m talking about. Others will be ready to censor Notes from their RSS feeds. However, I was recently recommended a site by another Twaddict – AJ Huffman – [...]

While Caro rolled out of bed early for a Black Friday trip to Wal-Mart (where she claims she bought nothing), the kids and I snoozed our lives away until mid-morning. In fact, Caro had apparently come back and left for work at the Gift Shaker to face hordes of eager shoppers from the other side [...]

In probably one of the most unusual interviews I’ve ever done, I recently responded to a series of questions for a news/blog site in Pakistan. I have no idea how they discovered my blog, but they sent me a very nice email requesting an interview. After I agreed, they sent a list of insightful and [...]

I hope you’re all ready to enjoy this time of reflection and Thanksgiving this week. I know it’s a deeply special and significant time. I want to encourage you all to allow it to be one in which you spend time in praise for all that Christ is doing in our lives. For some, this [...]

I haven’t made an entry in this series in some time now, and after stumbling on Grace Point’s website a few days ago, I was prompted to give them a quick shout out for their site. First of all, I like that GP’s site is not too 2.0. These days, Flash sites with bells and [...]

Just wanted to post a quick update on our health journey with Carolyn. Thank you all for emailing, asking and praying.  She had an appointment today at 12:30 in which the surgeon reviewed her PET scan and medical history. After doing an ultrasound on two of the areas in which he was able to see [...]

Hebrews 11.35 is a rather abrupt transition from a sublime chapter in scripture that some call the “Faith Hall of Fame.” After detailing the feats of faith accomplished by God through the lives of Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Barak, Samson (who I normally don’t associate with faith), and others, one is confronted with these words: “But [...]

Update (11/22): I’m coming to try this new theme for a while. It’s called Crybook and is a take-off on the old Facebook look. I’ve got the blog redesign itch again. I’ve been playing around with various new looks over the past few days and haven’t come to any conclusion yet. So I’m tossing this [...]

The following is from Michael Kelley’s blog. He gave me permission to post it in its entirety. I was wanting to do an OCC post since this is “collection week,” but his entry was so good, I thought, why duplicate? Thanks, Michael! – Last night, our family went to Target to fill our Operation Christmas [...]

A God Entranced Vision of All Things: The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards   This book is a collection of materials that was presented to the conference hosted by Desiring God Ministries in October 2003 to celebrate the 300th birthday of pastor/theologian/philosopher/reformer/Puritan Jonathan Edwards. Edwards is a giant in American Christian life, having help lead and [...]

Carolyn got a call from the doctor’s office this afternoon to give us the results of the biopsy from Friday. He said, “I’ve got bad news…” Of course, no one wants to hear that after a biopsy. Then he related that there had been a mistake made and the biopsy had been put in the [...]

What I’ll be doing the next 2-3 evenings…

The Most Important Issues In the 2008 Election Thanks to Kelly Rogers for posting this on her Facebook page.