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future of the church

This is going to be a good series from Craig Groeschel

One of my favorite passages in the Bible is Ezekiel 37 – the valley of dry bones. Every time I read this passage I pray that God would do a work like this in our church and in our ministry. Ezekiel is written to a nation of discouraged and disillusioned exiles in Babylon and theContinue reading “Ezekiel 37”

Eat This Book – Review

Eugene Peterson, author/editor of The Message, is in the middle of a five book series on Christian Theology, the first book in the series was Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, the second is Eat This Book.Eat This Book is a study in Spiritual Reading, particularly the practice of Lectio Divina. Peterson shows thatContinue reading “Eat This Book – Review”

Moving to Thursdays

>>beyond>> is moving to thursday nights this week! I am really excited about this shift in date and time. I think it can be a really positive move for our ministry for a couple of reasons. 1) It will be good to get back to more of a service format. I think that will reallyContinue reading “Moving to Thursdays”

SpaceMountain

My favorite ride in disneyland was probably Space Mountain. It was so much fun. Here is a picture of Scott and Myself. Clearly you can see we were enthralled.

Back From Vacation

We are back from vacation and I am glad to be home. I’ll probably post some pictures and such later on. But Disneyland really is the happiest place on earth, yet Ironically there were a large number of Goth people there. Kind of ironic

Vacation Tomorrow – Inbox Zero – Peace of Mind

So tomorrow I am going on vacation and I am currently sitting at Inbox zero. My goal is to try to get down to inbox zero all by the end of the day every day, but that doesn’t always happen. So this makes me very happy. If you want to know why I try toContinue reading “Vacation Tomorrow – Inbox Zero – Peace of Mind”

New Gay

well when it rains it pours, maybe I’m posting a bunch because I’m going on vaction tomorrow, I don’t know. But I thought this article on Christians as the New Gay was very interesting. Will & Grace could be a totally remade show about how people try to live in God’s Will while depending onContinue reading “New Gay”

Dove Campaign

Wow — I found this video over at ysmarko.com I’ll let you go there to watch it. But what a powerful statement, from the beauty industry. Working with teenage girls I know that self-esteem/and body image issues can be so devestating. I applaud Dove for trying to make a difference.

Random but Hilarious

This is From Andrew O. Who is arguably one of my favorite songwriters. You go to his blog and buy his CD’s