Archive for June, 2006
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Say ‘Cheese’!
Darien lost his first tooth last night.
I love you, buddy. You crack me up.
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Utah Vote could decide immigration plan’s future…
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 [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in news by tom cottar
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Veritas et Lux
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?)
Nonetheless, one [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in music by tom cottar
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Fanning the Flame
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 during [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in community, ministry, theology by tom cottar
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
God Annoys Me…
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 [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in community, ministry, theology by tom cottar
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
I Have A Dream
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, Vintage [...]
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Our Padre, Which Art In Heaven…
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 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in community, ministry by tom cottar
Monday, June 5th, 2006
The Not-So-Calm Before the Storm
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 teaching, [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by tom cottar
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
All Hail the Power of Krisy Kreme
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 [...]
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
Tempus Fugit, baby…
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 [...]