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This is the first time in my life I’ve had both a cat and a dog at the same time. I think we were a bit idealistic about how they would get along when Stoney came home a couple weeks back. So far, it hasn’t worked out. While I was in the back yard this…

I could tell last night by the amount of times the furnace came on that it was cold. Michigan + October = Cold? I know, it’s a shocker! When I finally got up at about 7:30 this morning I found out that it was about 35 degrees. OK, now that is cold. Officially in Romeo…

We had a bunch of friends over for a putluck after church today. As is usual, I hear the lamentations of “I don’t know how you can get along with all of those teenagers” and “you must be crazy to be a youth pastor and like it.” Honestly, I don’t get that. I just plain…

“And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.” Matthew 14:19 I wonder… what would have happened if…

Every once in a while you get something that makes you smile. I received this note from a student last night. how long does it take you to put together a talk? i think that if i tried…it would take me forever and still wouldn’t end up half as good as you….thats probably one of…

My week started yesterday fairly normally. I made the mp3 of the message, uploaded it to the web server, published our podcast, and started to tick things off the list of “things to do when PB is on vacation.” A big accomplishment we’ve had this month is that Shawna and I have been integrating Youth…

This post is based on the thoughts a friend of mine began in my brain a few days ago with his post “church vs. business.” In this post, while I don’t agree with his thoughts, I completely disagree with the analogy. I hate it when we compare a church to a business. Todd’s point [again……

Meet Stoney. Stoney is our families new dog that we adopted on Saturday. Stoney is named after a creek in our area… we thought this was pretty relevant considering he is mostly yellow lab and I am 100% positive he will love being in and around the water. So far, he’s been a great dog.…

This morning as part of my talk for church, I used this illustration. I thought it was worth revisitng here. [Read talk, listen to mp3 Tuesday or later] The PierGrowing up we had a pier at our cottage a lot like the one in this picture. Each year, we had to repaint the pier to…