Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • Following God With Your Money

    We wrapped up the series The Almighty’s Dollar on Sunday at CrossWay Church.  After a week about loving God with our money and another week on trusting God with our money, on Sunday we talked about following God with our money. While we’re often surrounded by messages that tell us to indulge ourselves and live… Continue reading

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  • A Little Clarification

    I realized I should clarify something from my earlier post about visiting Salisbury Christian School.  The reason I talked about feeling obligated to stick around during lunch was because I was aware of other things pressing on me that I needed to do, not because I didn’t want to hang out with the kid.  Just… Continue reading

  • Unrecycling

    Today one of the four-year-olds at the Training Station walked in and greeted me with, “Happy Earth Day!” To use Earth Day as a teaching opportunity, one of the teachers had me and another teacher go out on the playground and throw trash all over the place.  Well, “trash” meaning plastics, paper products, and aluminum… Continue reading

  • Right Where He Wants Me

    You ever have those days where you just feel like you’re right where God wants you?  Yesterday was one of those days for me. There was some kind of pastors deal at Salisbury Christian School.  We have two boys in our church, a fourth-grader and a second-grader, who go to SCS, and they invited me… Continue reading

  • Give Cheerfully? Freal?

    In response to the recent post Trusting God With Our Money, Katie left the comment below: I’m hearing ya on #1 & #2 but to be transparent it is sometimes hard to be cheerful about it. I am happy to be giving back to God what is his. I’ve been sitting here looking at the… Continue reading

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  • Trusting God With Our Money

    On Sunday at CrossWay Church we talked about trusting God with our money.  It was the second week in our three-week series “The Almighty’s Dollar.” The words “trust” and “faith” are very closely related.  To have faith in God is to trust Him: to trust Him with our souls, our families, our health… and our… Continue reading

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  • ACC Spring Assembly

    On Saturday at CrossWay we had the opportunity to host our conference‘s spring assembly.  We had about 80 people representing 34 Mennonite churches, mostly from Pennsylvania but also New York, Delaware, Maryland, and probably some others. They asked our praise band to lead the music.  That was the first time we had led music anywhere… Continue reading

  • Recycling

    The other day I was recycling in Ocean Pines and the bin for tin cans was half-filled by air ducts.  I guess someone was replacing their duct work and decided to go green. Speaking of recycling, only one time in the last six years have I seen anyone at the Ocean Pines recycling center that… Continue reading

  • Jesus’ Jamaica Project

    Today during the Bible story at the Training Station Preschool, Ms. Grace was telling the kids how Jesus taught His disciples that He was going away to prepare a place for them. When she asked if any of the kids knew where that place was, one little guy who’s three or four said, “Jamaica!” Continue reading

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  • Loving God With Our Money

    At CrossWay on Sunday we began a three-week series about money, called The Almighty’s Dollar.  Everyone’s favorite topic to hear about in church, right? Actually, money does have great spiritual significance.  Jesus talked about it a lot.  The gist of His teaching about it is that what you do with your money reveals where your… Continue reading

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