Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • Homemade Seafood Enchiladas!

    Tonight Carolyn made some seafood enchiladas for me.  About four years ago I went to a restaurant in D.C. and had some seafood enchiladas that were so good I talked about them for a long time.  Carolyn remembered that, so while I was working today, she went and cooked up some homemade seafood enchiladas for… Continue reading

  • Skin by Ted Dekker

    Last night I finished reading Skin, the most recent novel from Ted Dekker.  Another well done Dekker thriller!  Dekker is a  very interesting writer for several reasons, but one of the most unique things about his writing is the way it evolves so rapidly from one novel to the next.  I never know what to… Continue reading

  • CrossWay Podcast on iTunes

    Yesss!!!   Although there are still some glitches (such as our artwork not showing up yet), the CrossWay Church Sermon Podcast is finally available through the iTunes store.  If you have iTunes already on your computer, you can check out the CrossWay podcast by clicking here. If you don’t have iTunes but would like to, you… Continue reading

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  • Fish Bait

    Yesterday at CrossWay Church was the third part in our series “I’d Rather Be Fishing.”  This message, “Fish Bait,” was about how Jesus Christ is the God of second chances. We looked at the story of Jonah.   He was a prophet who ran from God’s calling on him until God came after him and… Continue reading

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  • Prevention, Not Practice

    Last night Carolyn and I borrowed a van load of babies.  Our good friends Roger and Katie have a four-year-old boy, a two-year-old girl, and twin 3-month-old girls.  We took them out to eat, went to the mall, and played at a playground.  They are so cute!  Some people–including the parents–thought we were crazy for… Continue reading

  • CrossWay On Purpose – Session 4

    On Wednesday night, we had 16 people present for the fourth session of CrossWay On Purpose, our church-wide Bible study. We started out with a brief review of last week, then watched a video segment from an Ed Young message. Ed Young is the pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas. In a series called… Continue reading

  • Speaking of triplecord

    The triplecord podcast is still in its infancy, but will be growing in the next few days.  You can check it out here. Continue reading

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  • Beach Baptisms

    Yesterday I went to Assateague with Daryl & John.  We’re having a baptism service & fish fry there on Sunday, July 22nd, so we were there to meet with the superintendent and scope things out. This is our first official triplecord event. We settled on having the baptisms on the ocean side.  The bay water… Continue reading

  • Chicken Cheesesteak at Rayne’s Reef

    Mmm.  Just want to give everyone a heads up on the best chicken cheesesteak in town: A couple days ago Carolyn and I stopped in for lunch at Rayne’s Reef in downtown Berlin (for those of you beyond Maryland’s Lower Shore–we’re talking Maryland, not Germany). Usually the chicken cheesesteaks I get around here have a… Continue reading

  • You Go Girl!

    My wife Carolyn recently took her first class toward her Masters Degree. It was a grueling three-week class, which kept her busy day and night the whole time (and she was still working during the first week!). Recently she found out that she got an A. Woo hoo! Go Carolyn! She had a big writing… Continue reading