May 2007
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The Skinny on the Church Name Search
Okay, the entries are all in…. Tomorrow night the Leadership Team is meeting to discuss a new name for the church. I’ve printed out a list of about 25-30 names, and I’m going to ask each person present to choose three from the list. From there we’ll narrow it to two names, which we’ll put… Continue reading
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Welcome to (Fill in the Blank) Church!
We have got to get a church name. For the second time in four days, I woke up this morning at 3:30 a.m. with my mind racing, trying to think of the right name. It makes for a long day when you sleep for three or four hours and wake up at 3:30! Here’s the… Continue reading
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Podcast (Hopefully) Coming Soon…
Our church will hopefully be podcasting very soon–and for less money than I’d expected. While the ideal scenario would be a Countryman mic with a CD recorder running through the sound board, I’ve discovered an alternative. We ordered a digital voice recorder and inexpensive lapel mic. The voice recorder arrived yesterday, and it is tiny. It’s… Continue reading
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Yo’ Mama
There are some amazing mom stories in the Bible. A number of preachers I’ve talked with feel stuck every Mothers Day because they don’t know what to preach about. Some of them say that there’s not a lot about mothers in the Scripture. But as I’ve done the biblical research for my first Mothers Day,… Continue reading
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A Real Sabbath
During my three years at SonRise, I took off on Fridays. At my new post, I’m considering two changes: taking more of a Sabbath than just a day off, and switching from Fridays to Thursdays. In the past, Friday simply meant sleeping in, taking my time, not having to hurry my Bible time in order… Continue reading
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Love is in the Air
Yesterday I went to Crisfield with Daryl to visit his second-grade daughter’s class on a field trip. We were in a park on the water and one of the park employees was talking with the kids about crabs, since they were about to go crabbing. One of the kids asked what they should do if… Continue reading
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Goodbye to a Good Friend
There’s a lot of truth in the old adage that a dog is a man’s best friend. Yesterday the Hyde family bid a sad farewell to a good friend indeed. Knight was a mix between a Black Lab and something else, probably a Dalmatian. We got him in the summer of 1993 when he was… Continue reading
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Day 3: Shakespeare Town
Below is the third journal entry recording the events of the trip Carolyn and I took to England and France in July of 2006: Thursday, July 20, 2006 London, England Today we took the train out to Stratford-upon-Avon, the hometown of William Shakespeare. We took a tour bus which dropped us off at several places.… Continue reading
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The Disturbing Smell of Burning Bone
Man, I sure am grateful that God made novocaine. I just got back from the dentist. He had to fill in this place that had cavity potential, and he started by spraying some air on the place. When he asked if it hurt, I nodded. So he shot me up with novocaine and went to… Continue reading
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An Early Happy Mother’s Day
One of the moms from the Training Station just crashed into my car. (The Training Station is the preschool here at the church.) I was sitting here in my office writing that last post when the director came in and told me what had happened. She said the mom was real upset and that I… Continue reading
Surfing the Inner N8 