Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • CrossWay Core Commitment #1

    At CrossWay Church we challenge and encourage every member to make five commitments.  These five commitments represent our core values and express our desire to live out these values. Our core commitments are summed up by our motto: Loving God, Loving People.  This slogan has a double meaning: we serve a loving God and are… Continue reading

  • We’re Having A Baby!!!!

    CAROLYN AND I ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!!!!!! I’M GOING TO BE A DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!! THANK YOU JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Continue reading

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  • Real Life: Living in Love

    At CrossWay Church yesterday we reached the halfway point in our study of 1 Thessalonians.  For week 5 of the Real Life series, we talked about Living in Love. If you watch TV or read the paper, you might get the idea that loving someone is about taking what you can get from them.  But… Continue reading

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  • Famous Dave’s

    Yesterday Carolyn and I went to Famous Dave’s in Salisbury.  She went to one in Annapolis with some of her teacher friends a few months ago, and has been a big fan ever since.  We went there together several weeks back, at which point I also became a big fan. So we’ve been waiting anxiously… Continue reading

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  • The Ministry Bytes Podcast

    Some other local pastors and I will soon be launching a new podcast.  It’s called “Ministry Bytes” and is geared toward other pastors of small churches. There are a lot of excellent and useful resources out there that are available to pastors, but there’s an inherent problem: just by the nature of how publishing and… Continue reading

  • “Garden of Memories”

    Just recently Carolyn and I finished reading a 100-page memoir that my 85-year-old grandmother wrote several years ago.  She titled it Garden of Memories, and it was one of the most interesting things I’ve ever read!  Some of my favorite parts: My grandmother describing how she met my grandfather–and how she had the hots for… Continue reading

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  • Real Life Podcasts

    I’m finally caught up on podcasts.  Woo hoo!  The first four messages in the Real Life series are uploaded. You can access the CrossWay Church Sermon Podcast by subscribing through iTunes or listening/downloading directly from Feedburner. Continue reading

  • Sorry to State the Obvious, But….

    Has anyone noticed that our terribly underfunded education system has been in crisis for years? How ’bout a stinkin’ 700 billion dollar bailout? In the Bible, when David wrote, “All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one” (Psalm 14:3), I think he’d been reading… Continue reading

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  • The Glory of Their Times

    Last year I was in Cooperstown, New York with my dad and two brothers.  My younger brother, Dylan, suggested I read The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter.  He said it was the best baseball book he’d ever read. It took me awhile to get to it, but I finally finished reading it… Continue reading

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  • Living the Word

    We were in the fourth week of the Real Life series yesterday at CrossWay Church.  The message was “Living the Word,” from 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16. We looked at several basic truths: God gives us Scripture for personal transformation. We must receive Scripture as the Word of God. We must let Scripture work in us. The… Continue reading