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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…
Here’s my not-so-weekly roundup of interesting posts, tidbits and news. Office Influence Phil Cooke shares the following points about how to avoid having your voice ignored in your office/work environment. Many of them apply directly to any social group…
Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God by Christopher Yuan is the autobiography of one man’s struggle to understand his identity in light of coming out as a homosexuality. The debate of whether a person is…
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…
AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church (Exponential Series) by Hugh Halter I thoroughly enjoyed reading AND. I was recently challenged to consider the tyranny of the word “or.” Essentially, we use “or” in places to indicate a choice between…
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,…
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.…
One of the main reasons I read Jim Putman’s Real Life Discipleship is that it had been given to me as part of a promotional package from the publisher. However, I’d been on the hunt for discipleship materials for study…
OK, pet peeve time. Brace yourselves. I constantly see people writing the following on blogs, tweets, notes, or statuses: yeah, yea and yay. I’m offering this simple blog post as my contribution to a world gone mad in the affirmative…
