Stac’s Place

My dear friend Karl pointed out that my math didn’t add up in my post about how long I’ve been in youth ministry.
Let the record show that I am currently 39 years old, of failing mental capacities, and was a student at Toccoa Falls College from 1987-1990, slotting my junior year in at 1988-1989, at [...]

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from my reading today:
As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life…so make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life…work hard to prove that you are really among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never [...]

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I’ve been in student ministry since my junior year of college–1998. Yep, close to 20 years. There were a couple of years there in the middle where I was a senior pastor AND the youth pastor. 20 years…
So much has changed in the way we do student ministry over the past 20 [...]

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Over the last few days these words from Jesus have been running through my mind:
If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light. Luke 11:36
I’m wrestling with what that means. I genuinely want my life [...]

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It’s the first day of deer hunting season, and Levi and I are in Bedford, PA at Kim’s parents’ place for the annual “Take Your Gun For A Walk” celebration. This year’s festival was marked by 24 hours of rain and an profound absence of deer. We eat pretty well, and the time [...]

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I’m not much of a gamer, never really have been. When we have people over to play games, I’d rather sit in the room with everyone and play the role of the DJ from my laptop. So Risk and Luck don’t have to do with games.
Risk is the title of a book by [...]

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I had a great time today talking to my mawmaw about her early life. Oh–a mawmaw is the southern version of a grandma! I found out so much about her childhood, her first job (at a boarding school for girls in Richmond, VA). That’s where she fell in love with my pawpaw, [...]

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yep. we rolled into Durham late last night, and I was so excited to pull out the new Apple Airport Express and show my bro how quickly the fancy wireless network could get flowing. About 2 hours later, sitting on the couch with cat-5 stretched across the living room, still not connected…this is [...]

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This is my letter to parents this month:
I remember coming home from the hospital with Levi. I was pumped up beyond belief, sure that this was going to be the greatest father-son tandem ever. I was making plans for us to be baseball buddies, backpacking buddies, hunting buddies, guitar buddies…I envisioned lots of [...]

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marko blogged about the closing session today, especially the technical foul-ups. He had a couple of videos that ran without sound, and he said that the glitches threw him off-track and out of the groove. To be honest, I didn’t remember the glitches until he reminded me! I don’t think that anyone [...]

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