Last week my baby daughter – the pink princess – turned 13.  She’s been moving too quickly toward this date for some time, but there is no help for it now.  Both my kids are teenagers.
Serving for 19+ years in Youth Ministry kept me younger and more able to relate, but that only goes so [...]

Marty’s got a new Examiner article up focusing on Pastor Appreciation Month (October is it, by the way).
Good article with an excellent representation of a hard working pastor and his family:
Why I Appreciate Pastors

Did I actually just say that? Yup.  I’m pretty sure I did.  I might clarify by saying that I don’t think you grow a HEALTHY church that way.
The thought process has gone, for decades, that if you have a great Children’s program and then a great Youth program, you will draw the kids and then [...]

The first thing that you should know about running a 5k… check that… about me running a 5k, is that cycling doesn’t translate to running.  They are based on a different set of muscle groups.  When a runner or a cyclist crosses over to the other discipline they will find a jump in their heart [...]

Got a few questions recently about why I haven’t posted much.  Couple of reasons…
I went on vacation.  I came back from vacation tired (it was one of those where you come back less rested but also less stressed) to a pile of work, a three day plumbing project and the accusation from the youth group [...]

Today is the day when more collect phone calls are made than any other day of the year: Father’s Day.
We love you Dad, please pay for us to say it… ;)
Happy Father’s Day.

It would almost seem obligatory that I would post on the recent confession of moral failure by a reasonably high profile pastor.  Gary Lamb confessed to such and resigned his position this last Sunday.
I won’t write about what we should do to avoid becoming such an example.  Others have done so and I commend them [...]

My wife’s hometown of Clinton, OK has a unique bond among its churches. Across denominational lines, they frequently participate in emphases together. The last major shared focus was 40 Days of Purpose. Now they are working on the One Month to Live campaign.
CBS came to town and video taped several people in [...]

It’s been pretty well documented that the church in America has lost one generation and the jury is out on whether we’ll lose the one following.
My take is that the church has facilitated the abandonment of parents being the primary disciplemakers to drop and go Youth and Children’s Ministries.  Those things were never supposed to [...]

I may need to get this for Jimmy, but I don’t think I could take the alarm going off until he got up and put the rotor back in.