Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

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  • The Comfort of the Vine

    Yesterday at CrossWay was the second week in a two-part series in the Book of Jonah. We read Jonah 3:1-4:11 in which God teaches us an important truth that the prophet Jonah had trouble accepting: Souls are more important than our comfort. Jonah didn’t give a rip about the 120,000 people in the city of Continue reading

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  • Membership Class, Part 2

    After the first session of the membership class at CrossWay on Sunday, where we talked about our core values and explored their biblical basis, one of the women who took the class stopped me before she left.  She said, “Those were things I hoped we still believed!” Yep, we still believe.  Mennonite churches don’t exactly Continue reading

  • Jonah & CrossWay Membership Class

    At CrossWay yesterday we started a new series and also began our first membership class. The series is a two-parter about the Book of Jonah.  Yesterday we read the first two chapters and a couple verses from chapter 3.  The subject was repentance, which essentially is making a U-turn.  At some point we’re all traveling Continue reading

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  • Celebrate & Serve: A Call to Commitment

    We wrapped up the series Celebrate & Serve on Sunday at CrossWay.  We reviewed our mission, vision, values, goals and strategy.  Then we brought it to a personal level and explained how each individual can personally be involved in helping the church achieve our goals for this year and work toward fulfilling the vision. A Continue reading

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  • Preschool Theology

    It’s amazing how kids get it.  We have so much to learn from them. This morning when Ms. Grace was teaching the Bible story at the Training Station, she asked them what a miracle is.  One little girl raised her hand and said, “Something only God can do.”  That floored me.  Adults write huge volumes Continue reading

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • A New Thang

    Pretty soon there’s going to be a new church here in West Ocean City, really close to CrossWay.  They’re actually a satellite campus for a church a few miles from here. I’m excited about it.  At CrossWay we’ve been working at getting beyond ourselves to reaching the community, but we still have a long way Continue reading