Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
Rain
So we had a huge thunderstorm a few nights ago. I would have to say thunderstorms are one of my favorite things. I could sit and watch a thunderstorm for hours. The sound of rain falling on the roof, the claps of thunder that can be heard for miles, the flashes of lightning that design [...]
Snow and Remembering
Well, I’ve been asking for it all year. There have been a few times that I thought we were about to get hit but they were only false alarms. But, now… it’s happening. The snow has finally come.
Now, where I live if we see a snow flake or even feel like one could form, [...]
Greek Terminology and the Bible
I’ve been listening to a teaching series by Joe Mcgee lately. I learned something really interesting while listening to this series. He was talking about life and migrated over to talking about sin. In Greek terminology, sin was an old archery word. Every archer tried to hit the center of the bulls-eye on the target; [...]
Shoes
I wrote a blog entry a while back about finding God hidden stories this Christmas, you can read it here. I have been saving this story for a few weeks now. I wanted to give it to you all on Christmas. This is not my story but another persons story that I have claimed as [...]
Who Has Your Name?
Here is a cool website I heard about from Trasition Pete’s Blog . www.howmanyofme.com has made a little program that will show you how many people have your name in the U.S.A. I have listed my results below. There are a lot more "Gross" people than I expected… hmmm. Click on the "How many have [...]
How Culturally Savvy are You???
I ran across another great article from www.churchrelevance.com, which is another one of my favorite blogs. The post I am referring to listed stats that compared the cultural knowledge of pastors vs. churchgoers. It was interesting and can be found here. I am a firm believer that the church needs to know the state of [...]
Cool Youth Ministry
I just ran across an interesting article over at www.churchrelevance.com about some recent stats that came out pointing to the decline of the "MTV cool Youth Ministry" genre. You can read the article yourself by going here. I have served in youth ministry nearing 8 years now. During this time I have seen all kinds [...]
Playstation 3 Blues
So I thought I was going to get a PS3… boy was I mistaken! I had the whole game plan layed out, nothing could go wrong… until I found out that I was not as much of a ubergeek as I thought. I was going to head out of work early yesterday morning and go [...]