from the clay

Everything

Posted by Brandon on Saturday, May 17th, 2008

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. God is trying to teach me something… something about myself and something about other people. From what I’m getting so far is looks like it is all coming back to one thing… Value. I’m seeing it everywhere and in all kinds of people… people I know and [...]

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God Still loves us even without a lint roller

Posted by Brandon on Monday, February 5th, 2007

I had one of those moments a few weeks back. You know… one of those moments that God decides he is going to teach you something and you are going to realize how little you really know or how little you remember. Yeah, it was one of those moments. My fiance’ has this cat, that [...]

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Wal-Mart and Free Hugs

Thursday, February 8th, 2007 - Devotional

I’ve been sick since the beginning of the week. We have had a flu bug going around the town for a few weeks now and I happened to catch my share of it at the annual Super Bowl Party we have every year for the youth. So, none the less I have been feeling under [...]

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God Still loves us even without a lint roller

Monday, February 5th, 2007 - Devotional, Featured

I had one of those moments a few weeks back. You know… one of those moments that God decides he is going to teach you something and you are going to realize how little you really know or how little you remember. Yeah, it was one of those moments. My fiance’ has this cat, that [...]

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creating a church website with an apple – Part 2 – iweb

Friday, January 19th, 2007 - Ministry Ideas

Yesterday, I gave a top ten list of why you should buy and apple if you are wanting to create a church website yourself. It might help if I give you some background as to why I decided to go on this “apple” tangent. Toward the beginning of the year, the youth pastor of the [...]

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Create you next church website with an apple

Thursday, January 18th, 2007 - Ministry Ideas

Ok, I don’t have any vicious (one of my youth has been using vicious instead of awesome… it’s been catchy) explanation for using a real “apple” for a website; unless you just want to take a picture of one. But I can tell you that the other “apple” will rock your world for creating a [...]

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A new blog for your enjoyment

Friday, January 12th, 2007 - Uncategorized

I just ran across Craig Groschel and Bobby Gruenewald’s new blog; http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/ . Craig is the author of the free book I listed in a post a while back, Confessions of a Pastor. Both Craig and Bobby have posted some good reading material with some interesting stories. My favorite, so far, is pulling pants down… [...]

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Shoes

Monday, December 25th, 2006 - Devotional, Thoughts

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 [...]

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Who Has Your Name?

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 - Thoughts

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 [...]

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Free Christmas and New Year’s Graphics

Friday, December 22nd, 2006 - Ministry Ideas

PastorsPlace has been giving away free graphic resources to help churches. It’s free to sign up and you can download the images for free. They also offer a low price option to customize the graphics package to be specific to your church. When I say low price, I mean LOW. I saw one package that [...]

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Who uses Email?

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 - Ministry Ideas

I was reading on our friend Bill Seaver’s blog today and he had an interesting post that referenced the number of teenagers who use email as the main method of communication to friends. The results were interesting, I have to mention I was not too shocked by them. You can read his post here. From [...]

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How Culturally Savvy are You???

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 - Thoughts

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 [...]

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