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In the past 3-4 days I’ve had a lot of conversations with people about this simple thought… what is evangelism? The context of that seems to be that while our team was in Northern Ireland some folks have a hard time describing what we did there as “primarily evangelism.” Here’s why I think it is…

As Kristen and I went to sleep last night, our thoughts were on the people of New Orleans as the massive hurricane was set to hit them “dead, solid, and perfect.” It didn’t really hit me that this storm was so massive until I saw a comparison with 2004’s hurricane Charlie. Katrina is 5 times…

Today is the day! About 4-5 months ago I was sitting in Dave Rahn’s Equipping Strategies class at Huntington when I realized that what I was experiencing there, we must experience at Romeo. It wasn’t a fancy idea. It was life touching life stuff. I knew that at my church we had teachers who were…

With all this angst and all the busyness going around with the start of Fall stuff and all my other non-StuMin projects… sometimes I need a reminder that I am a youth dude. Case in point, Wednesday night. I asked a few of my “core students” to plan a couple of fun games. So they…

It turns out that what I wrote back a few days ago has really grown into quite a discussion. It’s been a very interesting this… Having my private and incomplete thoughts copied into a public debate… But it has also been good. I have been learning a lot and really understanding what I wrote and…

UghThere is trouble brewing in River City. It feels like the honeymoon is ending for PB and there appear to be some conflicts coming out of the woodwork. Since he’s been on staff for the last 6 months he’s been able to bully people and get away with it because “he’s the new pastor.” Well……

You know, this has been on my mind for quite a while. With Kristen and I settling down here in Romeo, I am constantly stuck with the thought… “Couldn’t I do better in ministry? Isn’t there some place other than here that is bigger, better, or more suited to my talents and what I really…

So today I am off on another one of my marathons. Early morning I’ll be @ church setting up the visual presentation part of church and making sure lots of photos are getting snapped for the web and other stuff upcoming. Sunday school Signing people up between services to drive shuttles during the Peach Festival…

This afternoon I broke down and moved the family computer. This is something I’ve needed to do since I got back from Smiletown but I was hoping would just go away. Last week we had the Comcast guy come out and figure out what was causing our major connectivity headache… He said it had to…

Last night we took the kids to see the Detroit Tigers smash the Toronto Blue Jays at Comerica Park. What a blast! Of course, the real reason we we there was to celebrate my nephew Jacob’s birthday… but this was a case where everyone had a good time. Megan and Paul playing nice. Paul enjoying…