Books I've read lately.

Here a small list of some books I've read lately.

Eat Mor Chikin - S. Truett Cathy
How did you do it Truett? - S. Truett Cathy
Church is a Team Sport - Jim Putnam
90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
The Shack - William P. Young

Currently reading: The Imagineering Way - The Imagineers

Rivers and Rainbows

Rivers and rainbows
Beginnings and ends
Thrashing at the enemy
Dinner with friends

Painful and healing
Searching and lost
Fakeness of heart
Counting the cost

Prison and freedom
Heaven and hell
Some never turn
Some never will

Good and evil
Rich and poor
Picking up pieces
Pounding the …

Go get ya some ugly shoes!

Just something to pass on. I'm a shoe fan. The wilder the better. Several weeks ago my wife and I are in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. We are doing a bit of window shopping at Tanger Outlet Mall. Kimberly and my daughter are in some girly shop while AJ, my son, and I are …

Coke and peanuts

When I was young, say around 3rd grade or so, I was in the Y-Indian guides. Today it is known as the Adventure Guides. While in the Guides we went to camp. Camp was of course an outdoor adventure in which we stayed in small cabins and did really cool outdoorsy things …

Joe Biden

Joe Biden puts the "I" in what?

Today I continue to struggle.

Today I continue to struggle. Sometimes I find myself thinking about different issues. I find myself wanting to scream how I feel about something without stepping over the line and without offending someone. I mean after all a minister has to walk a fine line, right? …

Be our guest

My daughter and I are in Chik-fil-A yesterday. While standing in line I'm watching the employees behind the counter and just kind of day dreaming. That is until something caught my attention. It made my ears perk up like a cat to a mouse. The lady behind the counter …

Silver spoon?

So, this morning I come in to work and someone told me that someone else said that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Huh?

This is just one of what seems like a million things that this person has said about me. So it comes as no surprise really.

I've known this …

Clean by example

Well, this is probably going to make me unpopular with all the pastors out there, but here it goes. I believe we, as pastors, should clean the restrooms of the church. Yep, I said it! We should clean the restrooms.

I believe this for two reasons. Reason number one is …

Killing Cockroaches by Tony Morgan

So Tony Morgan is coming out with a new book, Killing Cockroaches. I like reading his blog so I will probably like reading the book. Here's a youtube vid, a teaser of sorts that I enjoyed... but, little things amuse me. You might be amused as well.

Please pray for my wife

Just asking everyone to say a short prayer for my my wife, Kimberly. She's been having a rough way to go at work. Her boss, Donna (pray for her also), is very hateful and mean to her and others in the office. It's just really hard for Kimberly right now... she can't …

Ridgepoint Church car wash

We had a free car wash this past Saturday in Oak Ridge. It was a blast, had a great time... man, I love these people! I serve with a bunch of crazies!

Pager... cell phone... what's the difference?

So here's an idea. A lot of churches are going to a pager system for their nursery and preschool ministry. If there's a problem the parent is notified through a pager that is given to them when they register their child. I love the idea but the fact of the matter is …

This is the Truth

The goal... to be the monkey!

I find myself praying often throughout the day for our move to the theater. I know that we are about to step into uncharted territory. None of us has ever had any experience with a church that meets in a theater. Everything we do is completely by the hand of God. And …

Can a church ask for too much?

For fun I've been keeping track of this church and their pursuit of finding a children's pastor. They have been searching since February. As you can see below in the job description their not looking for a children's pastor, their looking for God himself. Good grief, …

One Stop Shopping

So one thing I've always had problems with is how volunteers keep up with the rotation schedule. If you email the schedule they'll either delete it, or say they never received it, or just forget about ever having it. If you post it in the bulletin it ends up in the …

My soapbox. (I know, here we go again)

Well, I know this is a blogger no-no but I guess I need to give some sort of reply to Dr. Dittman. Fist off someone must have stumbled into this site and sent you a link to the blog. No one reads my blog intentionally, well, maybe my mom and she wouldn't even admit it …

Weigh In (July 21)

OK, I've just been a little busy. So I haven't had time to weigh in. I
did last night though and it was... 194.3# Not bad for me I guess. I've
not been very diligent about the whole thing but I'm slowly dropping.

Where's my soapbox?

Just got off the phone with Liberty Baptist Fellowship (LBF). LBF is a scholarship program offered through/at Liberty University. I just recently applied to LU to take some online classes (which cost me 50 bucks just to do the application!). Through LU online I could …