Year 2009

Review: essential church?

Essential Church?: Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts by Thom S. Rainer The Rainer father and son authorial team — Thom and Sam — have shot the latest signal flare to urge, warn and compel the church to reach young people…

Yard sale of the week

Over last weekend, we started hauling junk and treasures out to our driveway and carport. All week long, we’ve continued to add items daily as we clean rooms, attics, and closets in our house. It’s been quite the adventure. Here…

Increasing gratitude

I will not get melancholy. I will not get melancholy… When a friend told us, “Don’t plan anything for the night of June 21,” we knew something was up. We just didn’t know what. Then came the announcement in MonticelloLive.com…

Countrified city boy

The following was for an assignment at Ouachita Baptist University during 1990. I wrote it about my experience during the summer of 1988 at Hamburg, Arkansas. It was then that I got to live with my dad’s parents for the…

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Hammer pants

OK, just for insanity and your viewing pleasure on this Monday morning… For what it’s worth, I think this would be a great thing for a welcoming committee at a church to do in the foyer once a month or…

Busy, busy

Whew. The last three weeks at the Noble household have been a blur. I went from planning for future impact and ministry here in Monticello to an abruptly joyful turn toward future ministry in Virginia. It’s complex to drag your…