Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • Love & Leadership

    Lately my understanding of pastoral leadership has grown.  Most of the books, conferences, etc. about church leadership seem to focus on skill, strategy, character, and stuff like that.  But the one thing that is perhaps most important is usually not mentioned: you gotta love people. This has been on my mind a lot the past… Continue reading

  • We’re Close to Having a New Church Name!

    Welp, we’re getting close.  Last night the Leadership Team at the church met and narrowed the field to two names: CrossWay Church and Beach Bible Church.  We’re going to let the rest of the church choose the winner on Sunday. For the record, I’m going to shamelessly plug CrossWay Church.  There’s so much we could… Continue reading

  • Little Eastern Shore Foxes

    Jesus said, “Foxes have holes…” (Luke 9:58).  Carolyn and I found one of them the other day. When we were out driving on Sunday, we spotted some little foxes playing in a field.  There were five or six of them.  Most of them were really little–maybe not babies, but definitely not adults.  They were playing… Continue reading

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  • Flickr Widget

    Okay, now I’ve got a Flickr widget over there –>.  You can click on it to check out my photos on Flickr. By the way, yesterday I accidentally posted a link that goes inside my Flickr account.  Doh!  In other words, if you clicked on it, you’d have editorial power in my Flickr account.  So I… Continue reading

  • Day 4: The Tower of London

    Below is the fourth journal entry recording the events of the trip Carolyn and I took to England and France in July of 2006: Friday, July 21, 2006 London, England We did a lot today! First we went to the Tower of London in… well… London. It was incredible. It’s a huge medieval castle stuck… Continue reading

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  • Flickr Info

    With the move between computers, I’ve lost track of which photos I’ve uploaded onto Flickr from our trip last summer.  So instead of trying to hyperlink all those pictures into the journal entries, if you’re really interested in seeing more, you can look at ’em at Flickr.  I’ll be uploading more in the days ahead–Flickr… Continue reading

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  • All in the Family

    Whew, what a whirlwind weekend.  Tiring but great.  On Friday night Carolyn and I drove out to Eldersburg, where my brother Jason lives with his family.  We spent the night there after being entertained for a couple hours by his sons–Justin, age 4, and Kevin, who just turned 2. On Saturday we all went to… Continue reading

  • The Skinny on the Church Name Search

    Okay, the entries are all in…. Tomorrow night the Leadership Team is meeting to discuss a new name for the church.  I’ve printed out a list of about 25-30 names, and I’m going to ask each person present to choose three from the list.  From there we’ll narrow it to two names, which we’ll put… Continue reading

  • Welcome to (Fill in the Blank) Church!

    We have got to get a church name.  For the second time in four days, I woke up this morning at 3:30 a.m. with my mind racing, trying to think of the right name.  It makes for a long day when you sleep for three or four hours and wake up at 3:30! Here’s the… Continue reading

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  • Podcast (Hopefully) Coming Soon…

    Our church will hopefully be podcasting very soon–and for less money than I’d expected.  While the ideal scenario would be a Countryman mic with a CD recorder running through the sound board, I’ve discovered an alternative.  We ordered a digital voice recorder and inexpensive lapel mic. The voice recorder arrived yesterday, and it is tiny.  It’s… Continue reading

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