Lunch convos, Part 3

It was just a brief, hour-long lunch at a local Mexican restaurant, but the inane topics it spawned has led to a half-dozen blog posts. In this post, the Magic Eight-Ball is compared to Siri.

Lunch convos, Part 2

Ever wondered about the buttons in your car that you never push? In this random lunch conversation, a friend's comment leads to VBU (vehicular button uncertainty).

Lunch convos, Part 1

There's such junk on TV today. Surely there's room for more. I'm convinced that if someone were to follow me around with a video camera, they'd have enough material by the end of every day to create a 30 minute sitcom.

“Hey hey hey” hair advice

What do you do when you meet a bald evangelist in the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant? You could make up hair jokes, or you could discover a magic pill.

Surprise, you’re a leader!

Leadership is tricky. You're not really leading if no one is following. While some may aspire to leadership, I didn't have "leader" on my list of "what I want to be when I grow up." At some point, it was sprung on me.

Discipleship substitutes

Last year I read A.W. Tozer’s The Set of the Sail, a collection of devotionals. One entry in particular really hammered the church during his day for its separation of salvation from discipleship. The notion that someone could “ask Jesus…