Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • CrossWay On Purpose – Session 1

    On Wednesday, June 20, we held our first session of CrossWay On Purpose.  There were 10 present, and we had a really good study and discussion. We began with a treasure hunt.  The group was given an envelope with a clue, which led to the location of the next clue.  Each clue was a Bible… Continue reading

  • CrossWay On Purpose

    For the next few weeks we’re holding a church-wide Bible study on Wednesday nights.  It’s called CrossWay On Purpose, and its goal is to discover God’s design for CrossWay Church.  Over the next few weeks we’re studying quite a few Bible passages to see what God says about His plan for His church.  We’re focusing… Continue reading

  • It’s a Beautiful Day for a Ballgame–Let’s Play Two!

    CrossWay Church and The Gathering Tree are teaming up this season in church league softball.  Last night we had our first game (games, actually–we play doubleheaders) against Ocean Pines Community Church. We lost both games, 19-14 and 19-13, but we had a ton of fun and played a LOT better than we did in our… Continue reading

  • SonRise Brings in a New Day

    This morning I’m meeting with Pastor Daryl at SonRise Church‘s new digs.  These past few days they moved into their new office/meeting space at what used to be Calvary Chapel.  (Strangely enough, Calvary Chapel is moving into the office/meeting space that SonRise formerly occupied.  Works out pretty well!) I’m looking forward to checking out the… Continue reading

  • Anniversary at Antietam

    Yesterday Carolyn and I celebrated our third anniversary by visiting a walking trail at Antietam, not too far from the Maryland/ West Virginia border.  Antietam has some of the most beautiful and peaceful natural scenery I’ve ever seen.  This is tragically ironic, considering it’s the scene of the single bloodiest day in American history.  On… Continue reading

  • Doh!

    Aw man, I just discovered that I totally forgot to put pictures in this morning’s post about our first day in Paris.  I’ll work on that this week and re-post it. Continue reading

  • Three Years and Counting!

    Today marks three years since Carolyn and I got married.  It’s hard to believe it’s already been three years!  We got engaged on October 24, 1999, and were engaged for nearly five years!  It seemed like the big day would never arrive, but alas, it finally did on June 19, 2004.  I’d post some pictures… Continue reading

  • Riverdance

    Last night Carolyn and I saw Riverdance at Wolf Trap.  I’m not one for all that dancing stuff, but it was really, really cool.  (Every time I see one of those dancer guys leap 12 feet in the air, I just can’t help thinking that he should be playing basketball.  But anyway…)  Some of the… Continue reading

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  • Happy Father’s Day!

    Happy Father’s Day! Today at CrossWay we’re looking at 5 things about our dads that we’re grateful for.  (Or as my mom would have me say: Today at CrossWay we’re looking at 5 things about our dads for which we’re grateful. [It’s that whole ending-with-a-preposition thing.]) ANYway…  There’s no question that we’re experiencing a crisis… Continue reading

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  • nathan@crossway.cc

    Just a little FYI to let everyone know that my email address has changed.  It is now nathan@crossway.cc.  The other one (pastorn8@sonrisechurch.cc) will still be active for a short time, but if you could please start using the updated address, it’d be helpful. I tried to send a mass email to update everyone, but most… Continue reading