Stac’s Place

Kim and I are spending this Thanksgiving out of town, but not like we thought we’d be. We loaded the kids into the van and headed for the sunny South. We were hoping to be in China.
We’re extremely grateful for the family we get to see this week. Every day, we’re reminded [...]

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I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church.  From the time I entered 6th grade until I left for college, my family and I attended Second Baptist Church of Warner Robins, GA.  I loved it there.  Good preaching, huge choir, growing congregation, new building about the time I hit high school…I learned a lot there.  [...]

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Every so often, we chunk our “sing & speak” model of youth ministry out the window for the night in favor of some interactive/experiential prayer exercises.  We’ve seen some pretty remarkable things over the past few years.
Not everybody gets into the singing=worship model that seems to be prevalent in most youth ministries (and churches.)  Likewise, [...]

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beav=Levi, my 14 year old son…
Having a 14 year old son is turning out to be pretty fun.  I don’t know what your experience has been like, but Levi and I are wired similarly, and we tend to butt heads over some pretty trivial stuff.  It’s an area that we’ve talked about, tried to show [...]

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Kim has been communicating with Ann (our new friend in China who has been getting our letters and gifts to Annabelle) a lot lately.  In a recent email, Ann said that Annabelle/Mei Yun was told that a family in America had chosen to adopt her, but didn’t know much more than that.  Understandably, she was [...]

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I spent a few hours in the yard this week with a couple of my kids working on the leaves that have been accumulating.  I don’t know that anyone actually enjoys raking leaves (do you?) but it’s a pretty satisfying thing to look at a clean lawn and a huge pile of leaves.  There aren’t [...]

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I have been blown away at the love and generosity of our friends.  I mentioned that we hit a rough patch around the Sublett house in terms of things breaking last week.  Frankly, I was a little worried as to how we were going to pay for all the repair bills that were coming.  I [...]

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Our staff has been posting our life journal thoughts online.  Here’s mine from today…
Scripture:  What is important is faith expressing itself in love…Galatians 5:6
Observed:  I love the way the scriptures are connected.  Today’s passage from Job recounted how Job lived his life: expressing his faith in love and service of others, righteousness and purity.  Paul [...]

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We took the kids to see Miley Cyrus tonight.  All 3 kids were excited.  As a long-time and unashamed fan of Hannah Montana, I was pretty pumped about the concert myself.
It was a good show.  Lots of creativity in set design, use of multiple screens, dancers.  The sound was good, like it usually is at [...]

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Yuck.  I don’t like being sick.  You probably don’t like it much either.  I don’t like me too much when I’m sick.  I find that I’m short-tempered around the house, impatient with the fam…that’s not good.  I have to work on that.
A wonderful friend dropped off some delicious soup and sugar-free powerade for me today.  [...]

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