Got a minute?

’cause if you do, I’d like to share a couple of neat opportunities with you…
When I went overseas, I had about 11 weeks to find enough folks to commit to giving about $1,200 a month for at least a year while I was gone. Once I had been gone for a couple of months, a [...]

Video from youth retreat

A couple of weeks ago we took our youth group up to Asheville for a couple of days.
We stayed at a camp ground with no electricity, which meant no amplifiers or flashy lights, just guitars and voices worshipping the King.
Check it out:

Isaiah 53

Have you ever read Isaiah 53 from The Message? It’s powerful…
Several days ago,  I saw Los’ suggestion to check out this song, “Healer”. So I went to the link and heard the song, and watched the video about the story behind it.
And then I watched the performance of it.
…over and over and over again.
At the [...]

Reconciling the beatitudes with being American

I was reading in Luke 6 this morning. After Jesus pronounces His ‘blesseds’, He pronounces His ‘woes’:
24(AS) “But woe to you who are rich,(AT) for you(AU) have received your consolation.
25“Woe to you who are full now, for(AV) you shall be hungry.
“Woe to(AW) you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.”
And I asked myself, [...]

I bought a christian t-shirt

Our local Family Christian Bookstore had a big sale yesterday, and they had a big pile of t-shirts for 50-75% off. I happened to spot this one and it caught my eye. As you can see, the front lists many (all?) of the names of God, which just makes me happy.
But then I flipped it [...]

I wanna go back…

I would give a lot to be waking up in Samarkand today. I would walk down the street to get break baked just a few minutes ago, and I would come home and eat it for breakfast with sweet milk and tea.
Or I would fast and walk around the city all day and pray against [...]

What do you think?

Brace yourself.

For the first time in a while, I’m making some time to write something somewhat meaningful here.

It’s strange. Although these past couple of weeks have had me busier than ever (lots of driving back and forth between Greensboro and Creedmoor and working really hard to get up to speed at work, plus [...]

Is this true?

I’ve read on three blogs (here, here, and here) that Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin will be starting a church fellowship together.
Human3rror reports:
It’s true.  Chris Tomlin announced today, in a partners/members meeting after the 9:30am service, that he is planning to leave the Austin Stone Community Church to pursue God’s calling to start up a [...]

Operation Restoration

Steph and I spent Saturday with some folks from our church body working with the Raleigh Rescue Mission to do some repairs on a woman’s home.
Steph was our in-house photographer. She took tons of photos, which you can find here.
News 14 was also there. I was in front of the camera for quite a while, [...]

Some recent thoughts about the Church

We’ve been going through this book, “Using Your Spiritual Gifts”, by Eddie Rasnake at our men’s Bible study lately. I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed it and been challenged by it.
It has also coincided really well with the series on the Church by Francis Chan that I’ve listened to over and over again [...]