Surfing the Inner N8

Insights & Outsights from a Guy Trying to Follow Jesus

  • Your Tax Dollars At Work

    Unbelievable, yet true: not for the faint of heart. Continue reading

  • The Great Assumption

    If you’re looking to write a book on one of the toughest possible topics, you can’t find one much tougher than the often discussed and debated question: How can God be good, loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing since evil and suffering exist? In a book that’s remarkable for its readability and clarity but also its scholarship… Continue reading

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  • March for Life 2011

    Yesterday I went to my first March for Life in D.C.  It was a pretty awesome experience which really deepened my appreciation for three groups of people: (1) Catholics.  A local Catholic Church, Saint John Neumann’s in Ocean Pines, invited me to go to the march with them.  They chartered a bus and let everyone… Continue reading

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  • Spiritual Olympics

    Today in the mail I received an invitation for our “choir” to enter a competition.  That was funny enough, but what really got me laughing was the line where it says this event is held “in a spiritually-competitive format.” “Spiritually-competitive”?!? I had no idea what this could possibly mean, so I went online and did… Continue reading

  • Jesus Loves Her, This She Knows

    Usually when I ask Laura Marie who loves her, she says, “Da-da!”  Tonight the conversation went a little bit differently: Me: Laura Marie, who loves you? LM: Mama! Me: Who else loves you? LM: Jesus! Continue reading

  • The Worst Deal Ever

    Someone please help me understand this.  I looked at gift cards on ebay, and a lot of them are selling for more than the value of the gift cards. There was one gift card for Amazon that was worth $100, but 9 people had pushed the bidding on it up to $191.50 with three and… Continue reading

  • 18 Months of My Baby!

    Today Laura Marie is one and a half.  Happy birthday-and-a-half, sweet baby girl! Continue reading

  • You Are God’s Idea

    Yesterday I was listening to a podcast featuring Matt Chandler, preacher at The Village Church in the Dallas area.  He said four simple words that are so profound I’ve not been able to stop mulling it over.  He said, “You are God’s idea.” Of course, I already knew that God made me and that He… Continue reading

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  • Toilet Paper Halloween Costumes

    Me: So what were you for Halloween? Four-year-old 1: I was going to be a mummy covered in toilet paper, but I changed my mind. Four-year-old 2: I was going to be a behind covered in toilet paper, but I changed my mind. Continue reading

  • Little Miss Uh Oh!

    Carolyn and I are in for some trouble. Yesterday our one-year-old daughter climbed up onto the couch, stood up and looked at herself in the mirror, smiled, and then spent about five minutes practicing her fake cry in the mirror. I’m not really sure that one-year-olds should be doing that.  Maybe I should get a… Continue reading

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