Right now my oldest (Nathan) is growing out of using an old favorite ploy—”Can I have a second chance?” My youngest, Juliana, is still at the top of the bell curve with it. I guess that’s because we tended to give them second and third chances on issues when they were really little but tended […]
READ MOREIt’s long been a curiosity of mine why John the Baptizer was chosen as the ‘marketing representative’ for the coming Messiah. Why in the world would this bug eating, long haired, rastafarian be considered the best possible choice to build expectations and promote hype for the arrival of the God/Man? Now, grant it, most of the […]
READ MOREIdentity Identifying ourselves should be no big deal by now. We show our license when we cash a check, go for a visa, verify a credit card—like I said, no big deal. But identifying can be a HUGE deal. Take for instance being a Jew in 1942 Germany. Each Jewish person had to wear a gold […]
READ MOREThis year at Thanksgiving we did something a bit different—we morphed ahead to Christmas. Now, don’t go jumping to conclusions! We had already rejoiced in all that we were thankful for and dinner was long eaten and dessert nearly gone before we embarked on “Christmas Talk.” So I don’t think we broke any rules there. […]
READ MOREYeah, yeah, I know—this is supposed to be the “Sunday” evening mind dump… Sue me. I didn’t preach yesterday but was at church, so I had the rare opportunity to sit back and watch things unfold from the perspective of a congregant. Different. Very different. When I’m up front, I feel like I can gauge […]
READ MOREThe other day on one of the gazillion blogs I read about some things churches would never do or things that would never change—it got me to thinking. What about us? What about Southbrook? Are there some NEVER’s that it would be helpful to acknowledge at our own church? Probably. And some of those are as follows: We […]
READ MORESeveral years ago while my family and I spent Thanksgiving with the victims of Hurricane Katrina we all learned the difference between being thankful “TO” and thankful “FOR.” And believe you me, there is a HUGE difference. People who are Thankful “For” mention things like… I’m thankful for my iphone I’m thankful for my talent […]
READ MOREThis month so many good things happen it’s hard to narrow things down. But, I need to laser focus my ADD self regardless so here goes… The ‘special element’ we pulled off yesterday to illustrate that things go viral from just one person was awesome. It only takes one! But pulling the thing off was […]
READ MOREBack by popular demand… Ok, ok, so only one person mentioned the absence of the mind dump last week—that’s popular enough for me to get on it! Especially since I have a lot to unload after this weekend. One of the toughest weekends to prepare for ever! Seems whenever God is going to move big, […]
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