I drove home from Church Sunday after worshiping together with the Skelly Drive family for the first time in two weeks. A blizzard had hit and knocked us out of our Christmas Eve service and later the Sunday morning service on the 27th. The latter service being canceled kept everyone from being together, though our [...]
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
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 [...]
For those of you still checking in faithfully over the last, what? Three weeks? You deserve to know what’s been going on.
I’ve been busy.
I know. Life’s busy and if you’re going to be hosting your own site, then you owe it to the good folks who have come to depend on the sage advice, probing [...]
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 [...]
