Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • And On the Fifth Day, God Made the Itsy Bitsy Spider

    Kids are great.  Yesterday morning at the Training Station, Ms. Grace led the first Bible Story time for the new school year.  A couple highlights: Ms. Grace: Today I’m going to tell you the story about how God made the world. Three-year-old boy: ‘Cause He’s magic! Ms. Grace (near end of Bible Story time): Okay… Continue reading

  • Community

    Last night our church started a new community group.  A community group is where a lot of church really happens.  Rather than a larger, impersonal setting with lots of people, it’s a smaller, more personal setting.  It’s where life-on-life relationships can really happen.  Community groups have played such an enormous role in my own life… Continue reading

  • The First 100 Days

    Laura Marie turned 100 days old yesterday.  She celebrated by rolling over and laughing. She had kind of done both before, but yesterday was different.  The baby rolled completely over from back to front and then, for good measure, from front to back.  And she kept doing it. Later she was sitting on her mom’s… Continue reading

  • Coaching…But At What Cost?

    The apostle Paul was imprisoned in a dungeon a short time before he was to be executed.  He sat down to write one last letter.  He’d written many letters to many churches and individuals over his long ministry.  This final letter was written to Timothy, a younger man that Paul had coached as Timothy began… Continue reading

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  • New

    Today marks the start of a new year: preschool begins at the Training Station and Carolyn starts her new teaching job.  She’s teaching three-year-olds three afternoons a week.  A new school year also means more time in the office and more interaction with preschool families.  It’s always exciting to enter a new season! This morning… Continue reading

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  • August Post

    This is my first and last post of August 2009.  I’ll get back into this one day, really I will! Continue reading

  • Philemon

    We concluded the Postcards series yesterday at CrossWay with a message on Philemon.  This is a fascinating letter that the apostle Paul wrote to a slave owner named Philemon on behalf of the runaway slave Onesimus.  It’s a masterpiece of persuasive writing, but even more than that, it gives us a clear picture of what… Continue reading

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  • CrossWay Church Sermon Podcast

    Hopefully the CrossWay Church Sermon Podcast will be back up soon.  It hasn’t worked in two months.  GoDaddy had been telling me dumb stuff like “clear your cookies,” which of course did absolutely nothing.  Finally a different person in their “support” department told me to do something different–something that can only be done either by… Continue reading

  • Growing Up

    Two signs that our little baby girl is growing up: (1) She’s getting better at reading books with her mommy.  She used to just fall asleep, turn away, or cry when Carolyn got out a book and tried to read to her.  But the other day she looked at the cover. (2) She’s getting taller:… Continue reading

  • Postcards

    Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged!  I’m going to try to get back into it, though I’m amazed that anyone with kids can ever keep up with a blog.  But I’ll give it a shot. The past couple Sundays at CrossWay we’ve been in a series called “Postcards,” where we’re studying the… Continue reading

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