It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m at home. All the girls are sleeping (Mom and the kids). It’s really quiet. In moments like this, I try to remember what life was like before Amanda and I had kids. Our house is typically not this quiet when we are home. However, before we had kids, it was this […]
This past Sunday in Main Street (grades 1-6), the story was covering the second half of Exodus: Israelite complaining, receiving the Law (10 Commandments) and their charter as a nation, etc. Kathy Baker talked the students through the various stories quite well. Then we put the 10 Commandments up on the screen and had the […]
Last night Macie was coloring with markers at the table, and we weren’t watching her (usually she’s fine). Amanda was in the bathroom doing something with Sari and Macie went in there, too. Amanda started laughing hysterically and sent Macie to see me in the living room. It was really funny! For the next hour […]
A couple days ago, Sari and I were searching for a movie that Amanda wanted to watch. At one of the video stores in Hayward, there is a big gumball machine right when you walk in. Sari gravitated toward this colorful object and said: “Hey Dad! When my teeth get bigger, can I have one […]
Back in April, I was asked to come in and meet with a ministry at our church called Mentoring Future Families. This is a strategic outreach for single parents (typically women) and their children. They serve a meal, then there is a babysitter for the kids and the moms go and talk about stuff (i.e. […]
On the way home from my Grandma’s 80th birthday party, Sari had to go to the bathroom. We stopped at this gas station off of I-35. As we pulled in to this place the girls yelled: “Look at the fish, daddy!” For a second I thought we were in Hayward already, but then I remembered […]
It’s precarious to summarize the Bible in one sentence, especially when its 66 books long containing hundreds of thousands of words and multiple interconnected stories. But it’s helpful to start with something so to not lose the forest for the trees. When I was at Wisconsin Wilderness Campus (WWC), Mark Jalovick had such a working […]
I was trying to think of a way to end the school year in Main Street. Nothing sounded good the preceding weeks nor even the week before. It was Sunday morning, and I still didn’t know how I was going to end the curriculum year where we had storied through Genesis, Exodus (Leviticus) and Numbers. […]
I haven’t used any of these resources yet, but it follows in the same vein as LifeChurch’s Open. Seeds is a resource center for Church on the Move in Tulsa, OK. It’s all free, but comes with a few reasonable conditions. It looks interesting.
Last night, my brother-in-law, Mason, got married. It was a grand event. I got to perform/officiate the wedding ceremony. While I’ve done a handful of weddings in my “pastoral” career so far, this one was special because it was family. I can’t tell you how fun it was to have the “best seat in the […]
Interesting take on worshiping other gods back in the day and then in our day… source YouTube
I came across a You Tube video channel with a few good, animated Bible story videos: kris10cartoons
I am always inspired when I see various ways the church tries to communicate what Jesus meant when he told us as his followers to “love your enemies.” I remember thinking about this when I was a kid: “NO WAY was I ever going to turn the other cheek… I would turn the other cheek […]