Stuff in My Head
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Dylan Hyde, Age 31
Today my baby brother turns 31. That’s just weird. I can clearly remember standing in the living room of our house at 12125 Rennick Lane in Silver Spring, Maryland, on the night of December 11, 1980. We’d just moved to Maryland from Arkansas a couple months earlier. It was three days after John Lennon had Continue reading
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Sweet Deal
This is nuts. My dad is buying me a new iPod! He said he wants to support my ministry, so he’s hooking me up with a new iPod. How awesome is that?!?!? Thanks Dad!!!! Continue reading
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Jesus & Lima Beans
I wonder if Jesus had a favorite food. What if there was a food He didn’t like? That’d be weird, since He invented it. But I wonder if Mary had to make Him eat His lima beans in order to get ice cream after supper. He might have sat there thinking, “I just knew creating Continue reading
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R.i.P.od
Sad day. My iPod is officially dead. It was my portable seminary/ training conference/ continuing education and so much more. Living on the Shore, I’m isolated from church conferences and seminars. There’s no staff at CrossWay for daily interaction regarding creative church ideas and the latest innovations and trends in the church world, so my Continue reading
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Rhema
I’m now sitting in the office where I had a conversation a couple years ago that has deeply impacted my whole life. Pastor Joe was the previous pastor at this church, and this was his office. One year when the local ministerial group was planning a community worship service, Pastor Joe and I, along with Continue reading
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Christmas KidsFest
Registration has already filled up for our December 8th outreach event! On Saturday, December 8th, CrossWay is hosting Christmas KidsFest for the families at our preschool. For four hours, we’ll do crafts, games, snacks, and other fun Christmas stuff with the kids while their parents go Christmas shopping, take a nap, or whatever they feel Continue reading
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Stop and Smell the… Well… At Least LOOK at the Trees!
Hey, I’m not trying to sound all deep or poetic or artsy or whatever, but we seriously gotta check out these trees around us. I don’t know if they get more amazing every fall or I’m just getting better able to appreciate it, but the blazing colors of the trees in this area are totally Continue reading
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Strange & Change
It’s a strange week. I have more morning appointments than usual, which is knocking me off my groove a little. And I thought I knew exactly where I was going with the sermon for this Sunday; but when I got started, I realized it was not a sermon–it’s a series! So that’s shelved for another Continue reading
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Ode to November
Aahhh, November. November is probably my favorite month. I like the dark, overcast, chilly, rainy days with the wind blowing and leaves falling. That might sound gloomy, but I find it peaceful. November is holiday season, with Thanksgiving arriving and Christmas on the way. It’s right in the peak of football season, following on the Continue reading
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Anabaptist Mission & Peace – Day 2
The second day of my class last weekend, “Anabaptist Mission and Peace,” is harder to write about. (Of course, it probably would have been easier if I’d done it several days ago!) We got a little deeper into theology, and without writing at length to build that theological framework, a lot of my notes wouldn’t Continue reading
Surfing the Inner N8 