Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing

Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big Keith Urban (KU) fan. Just type in “Keith Urban” into my blog search at the top right of this page and you’ll see a half-dozen posts on him.
Saddly right around the time when he should be high on life, he’s entering a rebah because of an [...]

The LOST around us

Okay, so I’m addicted to LOST. Who isn’t. (Liars!) For all the obvious reasons this television series is absolute greatness. But, what I have been thinking about lately is how much history there is to each of us.
On LOST they show flash backs to all the character’s lives, filling in [...]

Half-held Beliefs

Someone made a comment to me about my “half-held beliefs” that I have come to of late, and it kinda shocked me. Granted there has been a marked difference in where I am at now and where I was 12 years ago, but I don’t know if my current beliefs are half-held.
My conscience isn’t [...]

The Grass Isn’t Always Greener…

The hard working, defensive stud, face of the Pistons now turned “missing piece” for the Chicago Bulls isn’t so happy in his new home.
Bummer.
Marc Stein’s piece on this is informative, but the conclusion he makes is powerful. He concludes,
We’ll see. We’ll see if he can rebound the way we expect Wallace to rebound, because [...]

CARS

I know I’m behind a little, but the fam and I watched Disney/Pixar’s Cars tonight. Great movie. This movie better helped me understand what my friend Watchman was saying to me about why I should stay with the church.
He said,
“Show me a better organization to change the world with, Toby?”
We talked about the [...]

Do I need Gandalf?

I don’t care if he is white or grey, I could use his advice, wisdom, companionship, guidance and a hit from his staff (and maybe his pipe, too!) to let me know I’m an idiot some times.
Both Bilbo and Frodo were called to do some things that we so far reaching from anything they ever [...]

Rocky Start?

The Pistons weren’t looking to hot at the beginning of the season. I’m still not sure what to think of them yet, but my perdictions are true as of 14 games into the season:
Detroit leads their division and is second in their conference.
They can play big. They can play small. [...]

How come so many?

“Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we’re unwilling to question. When Judgment Day comes, God might ask a lot of us how we interpreted the Bible - not to [...]

LOST

Just started watching season 3 online tonight…yes!

Glory

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” - John 3:16
I’m not sure how many times I was asked “why did God” do this or that in my ministry. Why did Jesus [...]

Happy T-Day

Enjoy this time of family, fun and rest with those you love and maybe some whom you don’t.

Planting Jesus - thoughts from a good friend

How are you bro?! Loved what you had to say under the “New Look For The Prodigal Project” (about church planting).

Speaking of church planting, permit me to encourage you in a few things. I trust they’ll be a great help. Through the teachings of Wayne Jacobsen and others, the [...]

Ned Flanders and Me

I have a confession to make and I hope it doesn’t make you think less of me. Ned Flanders and I have become friends. It hasn’t always been this way. For years before I began to pastor a church I knew just what the problem was in American evangelical culture, and it wasn’t sin, it [...]

A New Look, A New Direction

A LETTER FROM PAUL TO ANTIOCH
Dear beloved believers in Antioch,
Things seem to be going as planned - hardship, and persecution for Jesus’ sake, as well as the planting of several churches of precious followers of The Way.
When I think of these little churches beginning to follow our Lord, I am reminded that you [...]

Putting the pieces together

While a lot of people have said I’m smart (and many more have said I’m handsome), I disagree (on both accounts, well I used to be hot before I got fat and started loosing my hair…but, oddly enough some women like heavy-set [yes, I just said "heavy-set"!!!] guys who are ball…but, I digress).
Disagreement and digression [...]