Today, December 3 marks the birthdays of two influential people in the culture of my life. I've sent them both birthday wishes… Ozzy Osbourne, rock icon… and Jim Richards, Executive Director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention To [...]
Today, December 3 marks the birthdays of two influential people in the culture of my life. I've sent them both birthday wishes… Ozzy Osbourne, rock icon… and Jim Richards, Executive Director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention To [...]
Not long ago I had lunch with a close friend who runs a million-dollar overseas missions ministry. Before he had to leave for Sudan one weekend, we met for some great BBQ, talked about our ministries, our struggles and victories over the previous year, and caught up on some personal issues. At the end of [...]
Many of you know I deal with periodic insomnia. As aggravating as it may be at times, it's amazing what our bodies can endure without going completely bankrupt. So until it becomes something debilitating, I try to just enjoy the ride and see where it takes me. Some nights I just can't sleep. Some nights [...]
*note: this blog is a part of the Sunday SetList blog carnival going on at Fred McKinnon’s little corner of cyberspace.) This Sunday was our Communion service, where we observed the Lord’s Supper/Last Supper. Rather than the typical flow of things, we opened with baptism (the first in our new building!) and prayer time, followed by a video [...]
“If the God you believe in as an idea doesn’t start showing up in what happens to you in your own life, you have as much cause for concern as if the God you don’t believe in as an idea does start showing up.It is absolutely crucial, therefore, to keep in constant touch with what [...]
While we are busy catching up after a week of Spring Break, sit back and enjoy a great video. This week’s edition of Our Story features James, a great student in our ministry, who shares his struggles and experiences of vandalism, suicide, and redemption. Watch it in HD here on Vimeo.
In the 2008 hit movie Juno, Juno’s father tells his teenage daughter, who has just disclosed that she is pregnant, “I didn’t know you were that kind of girl,” to which Juno replies, “I don’t know what kind of girl I am.” Gone are the days when good girls “don’t” and bad girls “do.” Now good [...]
I hadn’t heard it in a while, but yesterday I caught Dave Matthews’ "Grace Is Gone" again for the 2000th time. As I sang along, I caught myself fighting back tears. Why? Because I’m a wuss. Because it’s one of my all-time favorite tunes. Because, even though it’s debated whether the song is about [...]
For all of you locals: This Sunday, May 11, we’ll have a couple of special guests at our 10:30 a.m. student ministry time: Glyn Milburn and Robert Jones. Milburn is a two-time All American running back, wide receiver and kick returner. He graduated from the University of Stanford and spent 10 years in the NFL, [...]
Feral. Adj. Describing an animal that has left a domesticated state and returned to the wild. Alley cats and pigeons are examples feral animals. A few years ago, we lived in a small central Texas town and had lots of problems with feral pigs. We lived close to the high school’s Ag barn where [...]