Year 2011

Doing it West Texas

  “Our Texas chauffeur” From Summer 2011 We’ve had a blast in San Angelo the past few days. Yes, it’s been over 100 each day. But with no humidity to speak of, you can sit in the shade with iced…

Crashing Windows

Windows. As an operating system, I’ve enjoyed jokes at users’ expense since 1988 – the year I became a computer user, and a Mac Plus was the happy recipient of my digital affection. However, the crashing windows I’m dealing with…

Things Mattie said

Our five year-old niece is visiting us for a few days. She’s from El Paso, and she is quite loquacious (i.e, my ears are losing weight because of the workout they’re getting). However, she’s pretty entertaining and fun, and I…

Review: Exponential

Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement by Dave & Jon Ferguson   I rarely rate a book “5-star,” and I may actually need to downgrade my enthusiasm about this book to four stars, but…

You’re too young

Our church here in Blacksburg, Virginia has seen growth in the last two years. It’s exciting, humbling and at times discouraging. How can great growth be discouraging, you may ask? Well, when the faucet is turned on all the way,…

Lie to fly

I’m so exceptionally proud of my wife this morning. She took our son to Roanoke early (5:45a) for a flight out to visit grandparents. The trip has been planned for some time. US Airways refused him boarding due to age.…