Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • Midway Praise

    Last night at CrossWay Church we had our first Midway Praise.  It’s something we’re just starting to do every three months.  We had 20 people come out for some celebration, music, and focused prayer (and a short devotional, which is Christianese for sermonette). It was great!  We started with four songs, then spent about 15… Continue reading

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  • Liking Jesus

    In addition to funny moments, today’s Bible story at the Training Station also had a cute one…. Ms. Grace is getting ready to start telling the Easter story to the kids.  So after the Bible story today, she said, “Next week we’re going to talk about how some of the people didn’t like Jesus.” One… Continue reading

  • What the Gospels Didn’t Tell Us

    This morning Ms. Grace was teaching the Bible story at the Training Station Preschool.  She had a little building constructed of cardboard and several toy figures set up in and around it.  The story was about the paralyzed man whose friends lowered him through the roof to get to Jesus, so Jesus could heal him.… Continue reading

  • Upcoming Easter Series at CrossWay Church

    What’s coming up at CrossWay: Continue reading

  • Our First 12 Members

    We held session 2 of the CrossWay Church membership class on Sunday afternoon.  We now have 12 members!  Our Constitution & By-Laws require completion of the class in order to be eligible for membership, so officially our only members are those who were able to make it both weeks (since this is the first time… Continue reading

  • 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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  • Impeach Merv!

    Today after spending some time at a local elementary school with a second grader I’m mentoring, I had lunch with my friend Merv at Panera Bread.  At least I thought he was my friend.  My man let me sit through the whole meal and walk around the restaurant wearing my “Mr. Nathan” name tag from… Continue reading

  • God’s Immeasurable Power At Work Within Us

    This morning I was reading the apostle Paul’s prayer for the church in Ephesus, when I noticed something I hadn’t caught before.  In Ephesians 3:20, he writes: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us….” That line… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Laura Marie, Age 9 Months

    Laura Marie turned 9 months old yesterday.  It’s hard to believe that next month she’ll hit double digits.  (Okay, so it’s double digits in months, but still.) Continue reading