Stac’s Place

Tonight was the big game–Mount Nittany vs Park Forest, the hometown throwdown between the 8th grade football teams from our middle schools.  Since we have a lot of guys playing, we thought we’d take our middle school group to see the game.  And what a game it was.
It was a defensive battle for most of [...]

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My buddy is in town for a couple of days.  He’s some bigwig with a company looking to recruit PSU students this week at the Job Fair.
Tonight as we finished dinner, contemplated playing some Settlers of Catan (pass), and discussed the mystery of the self-locking oven door*, he made the following comment:
My wife is a [...]

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If this whole pastoring thing doesn’t pan out, I might have stumbled on to my next venture in life:  Halloween decoration maker.
Yep.  I don’t know what your take on the whole “Devil’s holiday” is, but at the Sublett ranch, we do halloween.  Our kids dress up in the costume of their choice and hit the [...]

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I don’t know if I’m supposed to play favorites with the days of the week, but good old Thursday is pretty high on the list.
My Thursday starts with some sweet prayer time with other youth workers from around Centre County.  Some days are more talk than prayer, but it’s always good for my soul to [...]

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So after XStream (middle school youth group) I was sitting down to pray with a couple of the leaders when the phone rings.  Not my phone; KimD’s.  It’s my wife, who has been calling my phone for the last several minutes. (note to self: remember to grab cell phone off music stand)  It turns out [...]

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This is definitely challenging, and not the mainstream message. In a world that revolves around the safety and security that comes from having resources, am I willing to pray this prayer and place myself in a position of total dependence on God?
On the other hand, is there a better, more freeing way to live [...]

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Our Fall Fest ran into a little meteorological trouble as we headed into the weekend.  Normal October 18th temps are in the mid 50s.  It snowed in Happy Valley last week, which meant a white & soggy homecoming win for PSU and Plan B for the Fall Fest.  It’s pretty hard to convince people to [...]

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It snowed today in Happy Valley.  Today.  October 15.  Snow.  All day.  A couple of inches of heavy, wet, slushy snow.
Normally, I like snow.  I appreciate the beauty, the way it covers the land with a blanket of white, the way the world feels and smells when it’s snowing.
But today was a little weird.  It’s [...]

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So, how was your day?  Mine…not too shabby.
I posted my first entry on our church leadership Life Journal blog.  Some of us staffers are posting our thoughts as they flow out of our daily time with God.  It’s not meant to be a “let me impress you with my teaching” page, but rather a place [...]

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This morning I had the, um, privilege of sitting in a meeting with some of the leaders of Calvary talking about the upcoming budget proposal.  Now, I’m not real big on meetings in the first place.  But toss in a whole bunch of big numbers, and I start to go glassy-eyed.
Before you budget-lovers start to [...]

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