Darien lost his first tooth last night. I love you, buddy. You crack me up.
Darien lost his first tooth last night. I love you, buddy. You crack me up.
I found this article in today's Houston Chronicle interesting. It seems that a vote in a district that has fewer than 50,000 illegal immigrants and is 12 hours by car from the Mexico border could decide whether Bush's ailing immigration policy limps forward or is declared dead. This whole immigration hoopla is interesting, but I [...]
I have a hard time with sanitized, homogenized ‘Christian’ music, I’ll admit. In fact, the nauseating majority of bubble gum lyrics and predictible pop that the CCM industry churns out is, well…nauseating. I’ll also admit that I am a child of the 80′s–punk, new wave, and hair bands. (Admitting it is the first step, eh?) [...]
Last week was an amazing week with our high schoolers on the beach. This week is a furiously paced VBS week at our church. I’m also catching up with the administrative duties of being out of the office for 6 days. In 19 years of ministry, I’ve learned a few things to help me recharge [...]
Can I be honest? I was thinking along those lines earlier while working on stuff for our middle school camp next month. He seldom does things the way I’d do them. He always knows it all. And there are times when I don’t think he’s even listening to me…but it turns out He actually was [...]
After an amazing week at Padre last week, I’ve been busy catching up on all the blog activity I’ve missed (see the blog links I dig on the right). Playing catch-up is exhausting and exhilirating. Nevertheless, three people sent me the following from Dan Kimball over the past three days. It seems at his church, [...]
Yes, we survived. Beautifully. When Heather and the boys and I arrived on Sunday evening, we hit the beach even before we were completely settled in our condo. Why? The tropical storm off the coast of Florida was producing 12-14 foot waves outside our door. Darien and I were eager to hop on the boogie [...]
This will be a fast and furious week before we head out to Padre. We leave next Monday to spend a week at The Tiki and purposefully spend time relaxing, playing, laughing, and learning who we are in Christ. The theme, blatantly stolen from Spencer over at The Ooze, is SOULARIZE. In preparation for my [...]
On Monday, I took Darien on a ‘man date’. We picked up a couple of cherry slushes from Sonic, went to pick up some fishing lures, bike inner tubes, and a new soccer ball. On our way home, we spoiled our lunch by stopping off at Krispy Kreme. We spent nearly an hour sitting in [...]
Today is Thursday….feels like a month since my last post, but it’s only been a few days. We’re in the middle of a tech remodel in our youth center (screens, DLP projectors, PA, etc.). Thank you, Jesus. But it’s a slow-going work. We’re trying to get it online by Saturday for a SBTC Disaster Relief [...]