Flashback Friday: Extreme Home Breakdown
We’re in the process of getting out of the rental and closing on our new house, which means memory lane is filled with past attempts of selling our old house. Here’s one of the more...
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Thursday Three For All
Not everybody’s workin’ for the weekend. Me? I’m workin’ for Thursday. That’s when I let other folks do the blogging for me. Here’s some of what I’ve been watching and who I’ve been learning from...
Jesus In My Place (UNC Edition)
Back on Easter weekend, we celebrated new life in Christ by baptizing 181 people. On-the-spot baptisms pose a lot of logistical challenges, not to mention the fear that we might baptize someone who isn’t quite...
Book Review: How to Wow
You only have to be a semi-regular reader of this blog to know that I’m a big proponent of just about anything Mark Waltz writes on the subject of guest services. Mark was a Connections...
The Gospel Is Offensive. Nothing Else Should Be.
This is part one in the Five Plumb Lines series. Jump to the other posts at the bottom of the page. The Gospel is offensive. Nothing else should be. Let’s face it: most of us...
Flashback Friday: Creating Space
Jumping in the Wayback Machine in 3…2… [O]ver the last two days I have read well over 500 pages of books, sat through nine hours of meetings and conversations, typed up 11 single-spaced pages of...
Thursday Three For All
Baptism, Jesus video games, and grilled cheese? That’s why people keep coming back to the blog, folks: I’m not afraid to tackle the hard topics. Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: Must Baptism Precede...
Soaring With Eagles
Last week my in-laws were in town for a visit. And by “in-laws” I mean father-in-law, mother-in-law, uncle-Bubba-in-law, aunt-in-law, and RV-in-law. On previous trips the RV-in-law has set up shop in our backyard, running its...
Flashback Friday: Uncommon Communion
Last weekend a friend reminded me of the following story. I say “friend,” but the reality is that friends don’t remind friends of dark and tragic times in their lives, and do so while laughing....
Thursday Three For All
Thursday is the day where there’s no original content here on the blog. Well, unless you count this week, when I’ve been in a Gospel Summit induced coma and have done nothing productive up to...
