Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus


February 2010

  • Popeye’s 90th

    Today my grandfather, Popeye as we called him, would have been 90.  Dude. It’s funny how we give our grandparents odd nicknames when we’re really young, and then they seem strange to everyone else but perfectly normal to us.  It wasn’t until I was about 20 that I realized that there aren’t too many other… Continue reading

  • Celebrate & Serve: Goals & Strategy

    This past Sunday was the third part of the Celebrate & Serve series at CrossWay.  We talked about our goals and our strategies for achieving them. Yesterday I wrote about our five core values: Community, Reverence, Outreach, Service, and Spiritual Growth.  For each one of these values, we have a goal for 2010–and only one,… Continue reading

  • Celebrate & Serve: Core Values

    Since I haven’t blogged about the Celebrate & Serve series, I’m playing catchup here. The second week of the series at CrossWay we talked about our church’s core values.  Since we’re God’s people, what is most important to God is what should be most important to us.  So we looked to the Bible and found… Continue reading

  • Celebrate & Serve: Mission and Vision

    Yesterday at CrossWay Church we continued with our series called Celebrate & Serve.  This was supposed to be our vision series that would launch the first four weeks of the year, but with the snow and vertigo, it’ll take us to the end of February.  Oh well. The first week of the series we read… Continue reading

  • Unique Fat Americans

    This morning I was listening to the podcast from North Point Community Church.  Andy Stanley had this great quote: “We’re in a recession, and we’re still fat….  That is uniquely American.” Continue reading

  • SonRise West OC

    A little update on the new satellite church campus coming soon to West Ocean City: It’s going to be called SonRise Church West OC.  Pastor Kyle McDaniel, the executive pastor at SonRise, will be leading the ministry there and preaching weekly. They’re going to be located near Waterman’s, across the street from WaWa.  I’ll keep… Continue reading