Stac’s Place

Ths weekend I get the pleasure of performing the marriage ceremony for an old friend. Koop was one of the first PSU students to join our ace staff of leaders–an original Team XStreamer. Koop was the ultimate middle school volunteer–part jungle gym, part video gamer, part trivia expert…It was a beautiful thing to [...]

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two things:1. Billy Ray and Miley Ray Cyrus were just singing live on Leno.2. The Pittsburgh Pirates are undefeated in pre-season play. They opened today with a 5-0 win over Manatee Community College. Woohoo. Enjoy the victory, boys!

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Kim and I are home from the pastors/wives deal. I got back to the church with plenty of time to spare for XStream tonight. We wrapped up our series on sex with our middle school students tonight. Many things are good on the homefront.
But there is a heartache happening.
It seems that every [...]

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OK, so we haven’t got it figured out…
Kim and I are in VA for a pastors & wives retreat hosted by the MidEast Baptist Conference. This is about the only conference or denominational thing that I do, and it’s only because we get to hang out with the other pastors/wives from Calvary that we [...]

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I have been thinking about the pace of life a lot lately. I believe that it was Socrates who said, “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” Yep, that’s deep stuff.
Don Simmons is a church consultant who has come to our humble town to help us think through the hows and whys of [...]

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I love bluegrass music. I do. I always have, I think. My PawPaw was a country fiddle/mandolin/guitar player who could sing every part and knew every tune. He loved to sing, and loved it when we sat around and sang together. I have his mandolin, though I can’t play it [...]

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Yesterday won’t leave me. God is picking at my heart, and here’s the gist of it:
I’m not sure what to do.
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Those words have been attributed to Finley Peter Dunne, talking about the role of the newspaper about a hundred years ago. In 1857, Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached [...]

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I believe that this is the first of many posts that fall into this category. I am sure that the list will grow as time goes on, but I’ll start with peanut butter.
I can’t figure out why the manufacturers of peanut butter (blessed be their name) would care to package their fine creation in [...]

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With apologies to Bonnie Tyler, this Wednesday night we should be out in the front yard between 10:01 and 10:51.

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I started off by sleeping in, which was a good thing! My body has been feeling a little out of it lately, trying to get over a cold.
But the day got interesting when I cracked open the Bible this morning. I have been reading through the Old Testament, the Gospels, the letters of [...]

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