Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • 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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  • Separated At Birth: Inanimate Object Edition

    When the local snow plows were scraping Route 50 here in West Ocean City, as usual they smashed up our church mailbox.  I hope this is not becoming an annual tradition. Anyway, when I looked at the warped, twisted mailbox, there was something strangely familiar about it.  Finally I realized what it was.  Compare below: 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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  • My Sweet Baby

    Laura Marie has been out of the womb longer than she was in the womb.  She’s growing up!  She’s at a really, really fun age.  What a blessing she is! Continue reading

  • Popeye’s 90th

    Today my grandfather, Popeye as we called him, would have been 90.  Dude. It’s funny how we give our grandparents odd nicknames when we’re really young, and then they seem strange to everyone else but perfectly normal to us.  It wasn’t until I was about 20 that I realized that there aren’t too many other… Continue reading

  • 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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  • Unique Fat Americans

    This morning I was listening to the podcast from North Point Community Church.  Andy Stanley had this great quote: “We’re in a recession, and we’re still fat….  That is uniquely American.” Continue reading