Review: The Forgotten Ways

The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Alan Hirsch Alan Hirsch has done it again. He made my head hurt… and my heart. In The Forgotten Ways Hirsch uses a lot of trendy church terminology like missional, DNA, emerging,…

Week 1, Win 1, One Son

I’ve been a fantasy football coach since 1992. One of my best friends on the planet – Mitch Bettis – and I have been in a league together almost every one of the past 17 years. Funny thing is I…

The clothing of creation

I read this week in Psalm 65 about the designer line that God has unveiled on the runway of the earth: You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. The pastures of the wilderness overflow,…

Ode to Monticello

This particular post has been percolating in my head for a long time. I kept waiting for inspirations of majestic verbiage in order to craft an appropriate entry. I wanted people to read this sublime creation and weep in amazement.…

Torticollis – learning hard lessons

During Adelyn’s suffering with torticollis earlier this week, I prayed with her and asked the Lord to bring relief and healing to her neck. While talking to Carolyn on the phone during one of her atrocious spasms today, I heard…

Torticollis – a pain in the neck

Tuesday morning seemed to start off normally at the Nobles – that is, as normal as can be expected for a family who has recently moved to a new town with kids in new schools. Sam was already at school…

I get around…

I saw this on a fellow Twitterer’s blog and thought it would make for an easy blog entry on Monday… visited 20 states (40%) Create your own visited map of The United States. visited 8 countries (3.55%) Create your own…

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