Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • Aggressive Babies

    It’s been too long since I’ve put a video on here, so it’s time. This little video from YouTube proves that babies are hilarious in every country. I don’t know where this is from, since I can’t even tell what language it’s in. But the funny things little people do transcend language, so I’m sure… Continue reading

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  • Search Box

    Just so ya know, there’s now a search box on this blog.  It’s located in the sidebar on the right, at the bottom, under the archives.  Now you can type in a word or phrase or whatever, and it’ll search for it within the blog.  That way you can find out if I’ve been talking… Continue reading

  • Hunting for Crabs with Little People

    Yesterday morning I visited Carolyn’s kids on their field trip at Janes Island in Crisfield.  It was fun, but also kind of sad because it’s probably the last time I’ll get to hang out with this group of kids since their school year ends next week. It’s interesting to go crabbing with kindergarteners.  One little… Continue reading

  • Five Days Immersion in Hyde History

    What a week! Last Tuesday I left at 5:00 a.m. and drove three hours to my brother Jason’s house in Eldersburg. My sister-in-law, Kristi, drove my dad and I to BWI Airport, where we flew to Little Rock. My little nephews made the drive with us, and as we were getting out, Justin (the four-year-old)… Continue reading

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  • Meeting with the Mentor Man

    Today I met for the first time with my assigned mentor, James Wenger (our conference assigns a mentor to every new pastor).  James is the pastor of North Baltimore Mennonite Church.  I really enjoyed our time together, and I look forward to meeting with him again next month. Whenever a new pastor comes into our area conference,… Continue reading

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  • Day 7: Windsor Castle & Downtown London at Night

    Below is the seventh journal entry recording the events of the trip Carolyn and I took to England and France in July of 2006: Monday, July 24, 2006 London, England Today was one of the most interesting days we’ve had so far. We took the train this morning to Windsor, where we toured Windsor Castle.… Continue reading

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  • Holographic Haggai

    Yesterday at CrossWay Church we began a two-part series on the book of Haggai. In the first week, we learned from Haggai that we can see reality more clearly when we look through the lens of God’s promises to us. I lit a candle that was set on a table up front and asked everyone… Continue reading

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  • Whew

    Whew… What an exhausting week–and we’re only to the midway point!  When I have more time I’ll write about what’s going on.  In the meantime, I probably won’t post much before the weekend.  If you check out http://crossway.cc, we don’t have our website up and running yet, but at least we’ve got a “Coming Soon”… Continue reading

  • Day 6: Stonehenge

    Below is the sixth journal entry recording the events of the trip Carolyn and I took to England and France in July of 2006: Sunday, July 23, 2006 London, England This morning we slept in until about 9:00, giving us both some much needed rest. I tried to find a church to go to (on… Continue reading

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  • CrossWay Love Day

    Yesterday at CrossWay the message was “All You Need is Love.”  I really see this being the major theme for our church.  Josh and Diana, our worship leaders, did an excellent job of selecting very worshipful songs that set our hearts and minds on the love theme.  We transitioned into the message with a short… Continue reading

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