Stac’s Place

I found a coffee shop with free wifi this morning, and have spent the day thinking and planning.
I took some time today to focus on the upcoming school year, and how we’ll approach what we’re going to teach students over the course of the coming weeks. I enjoy this, and have been doing this [...]

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We got up a little earlier than I wanted to today–last night was a late one, what with the gaming going to 2:30. There should be a law against Phase 10 at 2 am. Lilly woke up singing (that’s pretty normal–I call her my sunshine, and she is a glass-half-full kid). Her [...]

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Hmmm, I wasn’t expecting this, so I didn’t even check until tonight. A full 3 days without my computer being turned on. Kind of weird…Folks wanted a little music tonight as we played games (ok, they played, I passed), so I pulled out the mac to fire up some tunes, and there was [...]

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We’re headed toward our annual Team XStream staff retreat, which was slated for tonight through Sunday. Unfortunately, more than half of our leaders can’t/won’t be around for the retreat. It’s tough to prepare, plan, pray, and play together when many of us won’t actually be together…so we’ll adapt the retreat and hit a [...]

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When I was but a wee young lad, my father got into CB radio. You know, the kind of thing that Smoky and the Bandit made cool. We had a CB in dad’s truck, in mom’s car, and a base station complete with a huge 3 armed antenna mounted on the roof of [...]

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I’ve been giving this some thought and journal space for many months now. I don’t know if the thought process is complete, but I thought I’d run it up the flag pole today.
My pastor has pointed out to many of us (in a different context, but nonetheless true) that Christians and churches are all [...]

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A friend and fellow youth worker just left the house. He stopped by tonight to get my perspective on a couple of issues that we are working through in our ministry.
The first is the area of focus/busyness/margins in life. I’ve been working on my life/schedule to try to reclaim some time for family [...]

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Since I’ve resumed blogging, my wife has resumed reading my blog.
*Hi hon…*
She told me in no uncertain terms that she did not like the picture that I have of us (my profile pic). Seems that she’s not pleased that I’ve displayed her in the most positive light. She thinks that she’s [...]

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in no particular order:

Lauren gave me her spicy tuna. I wolfed it down, and now I know why she didn’t want it. I’m still tasting it, hours after the fact. ugghhh.
Bob and Dannah are on their way home from China with their new 13 year old daughter! Talk about an amazing [...]

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Godly men leave a godly heritage, a legacy–right? Yeah, not always the case.
I was reading through 1 Samuel 8 today and discovered that Samuel’s boys (Joel and Abijah) took over dear old dad’s role as Judges in Israel. But the weren’t like Samuel–they were greedy and lacked integrity. They took bribes and [...]

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