Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • AA

    There’s an AA group that’s been meeting weekly at our church for 18 years.  I finally made it out there last night to meet some of them.  Over the last few months I’ve talked with the group’s leader several times by phone and email, but this was the first time I’d met him in person. … Continue reading

  • Dylan Hyde, Age 31

    Today my baby brother turns 31. That’s just weird. I can clearly remember standing in the living room of our house at 12125 Rennick Lane in Silver Spring, Maryland, on the night of December 11, 1980. We’d just moved to Maryland from Arkansas a couple months earlier. It was three days after John Lennon had… Continue reading

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  • Introducing… Steve the iPod

    My new iPod arrived today!  It’s an 80 GB classic, sleek black.  When you first hook up a new iPod in iTunes, you have to give it a name.  In honor of my dad who bought me this amazing gift, I named the iPod Steve. Here’s a view of Steve the iPod: Ahh, so nice… Continue reading

  • Communion (or the Lord’s Supper)

    On Sunday at CrossWay we celebrated Communion, also known as the Lord’s Supper or the Eucharist (if you’re from a really fancy church!). We looked at how there are many normal situations in which people don’t connect with each other–they don’t even talk.  For instance, the common etiquette on an elevator requires that you stare… Continue reading

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  • Christmas KidsFest at CrossWay!

    On Saturday at CrossWay we held our first Christmas KidsFest.  It was awesome!  We had 25 kids from 12 families, ranging in age from one to seven.  The kids were all from families that are part of the Training Station, the preschool we have at CrossWay.  There were 17 volunteers from church who worked really… Continue reading

  • Dallas… Again

    What is it with these dominant NFL teams trying to make things dramatic by trailing until there are only a few seconds left, then scoring a touchdown to put away the win? In true copycat fashion, the Cowboys did a great mimic of New England’s last-second triumph over Baltimore on Monday Night Football.  Dallas made… Continue reading

  • Free Script for Christmas Puppet Show for Kids

    I’ve discovered that several people have found this blog by exploring the search engines looking for a script for a Christmas puppet show for kids. If anyone is interested in seeing the script I used for the puppet show described in a recent post, just email me by clicking the link near the top right… Continue reading

  • Christmas KidsFest at CrossWay

    Today is Christmas KidsFest at CrossWay! We’re having close to 30 children for a kids Christmas party. We’ll make crafts, play games, eat lunch, watch a Christmas video, play outside, and other cool stuff! Continue reading

  • Calvin & Brewster Tell the Christmas Story

    Well, I survived my first puppet show. A group of about 25 kids gathered for the morning Bible story, when Calvin (a cow) and Brewster (a rooster) made their first appearance to tell the kids the biblical story about Jesus’ birth.   Then in the afternoon a class of about 15 assembled for the same story.… Continue reading

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  • Friday

    Today will be a different kind of day.  At 7:00 I’m going to the mayor’s prayer breakfast in Ocean City.  (I don’t know whether or not this actually has anything to do with the mayor.  One year in Berlin we forgot to invite the mayor to the mayor’s prayer breakfast!  Someone called him a couple… Continue reading