I don’t know what the Monday after Thanksgiving is like where you live, but in PA, it’s a holiday. Schools are closed. Families gather, fathers passing down the wisdom of the ages to their children. It’s been a family tradition for as long as we can remember. Up at 4am, Read more…
(yes, I know that some of you are singing along) I was going to start this post with, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” but I thought that might be a little melodramatic and over the top. Plus it’s already been used, and I Read more…
Well, it was what I thought it would be…splendid. We got to spend the day listening to Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel talk about organizational health, values, and culture. They we funny and pointed in their assessment of the Church or North America, speaking in generalizations, which were pretty spot Read more…
By this time tonight (Tues) I thought I’d be wowing you with some incredible hipstergram photos or waxing eloquent about the joys of iphoneage. Now to be clear, I am enjoying my new cellular communication device…it’s just not dominating my mind. Like most Apple products, it’s fairly easy to pick Read more…
Last year on this very night we were parading up and down the hallway of our hotel in Guangzhou, knocking on the doors of our new friends who were adopting babies. We had our new tweenager all decked out, teaching him the finer points of begging for candy from relative Read more…
I’ve said it before, I know, but it feels like Isaac’s always been part of our family. A little over a year ago we met him in the hotel lobby in Huhehaote, way up north in Inner Mongolia, China. He was all smiles, but he had to be nervous that Read more…
Some time ago one of the sound guys from our church suggested that our band might be able to improve by playing with a click track (that’s a metronome kind of deal that plays in the ears of the worship team). He was kindly suggesting that we were having trouble Read more…
How do you know you’re being loved? And how do the people around you know that you’re loving them? You’re read the 5 Love Languages, haven’t you? The 5 are Touch, Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Gifts, and Quality Time. (I’m pretty sure that those appear in order of Read more…
Levi is into superheroes. By “into” I mean like the moon is into gravitational orbit. He draws them and reads them and talks about them and wears them and talks about them and watches them and talks about them and talks about them and talks about them. We are getting Read more…
Highlight: having brunch with some of the guys who attended chapel this year with the State College Spikes. Being a chaplain for a minor league baseball team is a lot like being in youth/college ministry. This summer’s chapel schedule was very sporadic, which made it hard to get much traction. Read more…