Here’s a link to the message I gave today, from John 17: 13-23.
Read MoreRandom thoughts of the night
Talli and I, for months, have been working our way through the special features of the Lord of the Rings movies (you know, the appendices to the special extended editions, that show how they made the movies. I’VE watched them all, of course, but it’s …
Read MorePirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Ok, loyal blog readers, remember last May? Remember my exciting travel blog updates about our 2nd honeymoon trip to Dominica? Well, just in case you fell asleep, or skipped them, or weren’t hip to Gregg’s Gambles that long ago, go back and read this entry… …
Read MoreI like being a dad
For the past couple of months, my two older daughters have been practicing each week for a play at church, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”. Hayley has been a member of the angel choir, and came home from practice excitedly a few weeks ago when …
Read MoreSurprised at Baja Fresh
A week ago Wednesday, a man from our church took me to lunch, and we met with the man’s previous pastor. This same man had taken Elaine and me to visit this pastor’s mega church last September, and I had written it off as a …
Read MoreJust go see this…
AJ has outdone herself with this post!
Read MoreStream of consciousness from driving in my car
Ok, so imagine this: our entire pastoral team, after Tuesday’s team meeting, goes to the Golden Leaf for Thai food. In a freak accident, we are all killed because they garnished with arsenic instead of curry. What would happen at NFC? Would all the people …
Read MoreToday’s questions
At NFC, we’ve held to the “every service the same” mantra for over 15 years, because we say we don’t want to split into little homogenous groups. We’ve said we want diversity (by which we primarily are speaking about generational diversity…our racial and socioeconomic diversity …
Read MoreFootnote to previous post
By the way, I ought to give credit to someone for starting me (again) down this road of reconsidering preaching. Bob Hyatt, who I got to actually meet in person, who generously offered to meet for coffee and I haven’t yet taken him up on …
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