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Joy To Her World

Joy To Her World

I snapped this yesterday, during a quiet Sunday afternoon where Haven was having her yuletide world rocked. This year she’s all about The Polar Express. She calls it the “Magic Train.” When the opening credits...

Flashback Friday: “We Don’t Do Comfortable.”

Flashback Friday: “We Don’t Do Comfortable.”

E’ry Friday, I scrape a couple of layers of strata off of the archaeological archives. Today, I dug up a post that just got me riled up all over again. Actually, it might have riled...

Thursday Three For All

Thursday Three For All

TGIT? You betcha. Here are three things that I’ve had my eyes on this week (click the header links to read the full articles). Broken Events. Every single pastor and every single speaker and every single...

What Story Are You Telling?

If you’ve read this blog for a few seconds you know that I’m a freakishly huge Disney fan. Not the type of fan where I have a Captain Hook costume in my closet and the...

How to Complain

Preface: if you’re a pastor (or you’re a human), you’re going to receive criticism. And if you’re a pastor (or you’re human), you’re going to give criticism. So if you’re gonna do it, you might...

A Tree Grows in Durham

Meticulous research has shown me that there are two kinds of people in this world: (1) those who like the predictability and practicality of an artificial Christmas tree, and (2) insane people. For 19 years,...

ThanksWeek: Twenty

ThanksWeek: Twenty

Today wraps up ThanksWeek on the blog. I’ve been checking off the list of people I’m thankful for, but you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know I’d save my favorite person on...

ThanksWeek: Choosing Life

ThanksWeek: Choosing Life

ThanksWeek rolls on here at the blog, where I’m dusting off some old posts and sharing them one more time.  Today’s gratitude check? My daughter. And my daughter’s birth parents. Here’s their story, which originally...

ThanksWeek: Ten Years

ThanksWeek: Ten Years

It’s ThanksWeek here on the blog, where I reach back into the archives and pull out some of my favorite posts of gratitude (which would be an awesome name for a Bibleman weapon: “Step back,...

ThanksWeek: Dream Team

ThanksWeek: Dream Team

It’s Thanksgiving Week here in the USA (G’day, British readers!), which means one thing around the Summit offices: It’s quiet. That’s true. Many of our staff is traveling, we’re in the very brief lull between...