its friday, i’m in love…

with Relevant Magazine. God. Life. Progressive Culture. These guys do a great job keeping their fingers on the pulse of our culture. While the church has a rap for fleeing the culture, Relevant provides engaging articles and insight that will challenge and encourage you to be “in the world,” not “of the world.”
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weakness

Wish you were better at something? I really wish I was more musically inclined. I respect talented musicians, I appreciate a variety of music (all but the country variety), and love to belt it out while I’m cutting the grass (it takes a lawn mower to drown out my monotone.) I have aspirations of becoming [...]

librarything

If you’re into reading, a great site to check out is librarything.com. Librarything allows you to catalog your personal library. You can rate your books, store comments, organize by tags, enter discussion groups, and much, much more. The service is free for your first 200 volumes. (You can see I updated [...]

the great divorce

I love the thought of heaven. The Scriptures reveal enough about what eternity will be like when Jesus ushers in the “new heaven and new earth” to get me pretty excited (check out Revelation 4). But what is so appealing about heaven is the mystery. Nobody really knows! We know it [...]

deja vu

We rented Deja Vu this weekend and it was quite entertaining – lots of action and an intriguing story line that involved time travel. I’ve always been fascinated with the possibility of traveling back in time (thanks in small part to Back to the Future.) How incredible would it be to have a [...]

sunday night rewind

Nothing like starting out the message with a screen shot of deathclock.com. For those unfamiliar with the site, after answering a few questions, the deathclock will determine the date of your death. Then as a friendly reminder, it provides you with a digital countdown clock in seconds – your own personal death [...]

lyrics that inspire

It had been a little while since I listened to Mat Kearney, so while doing some yard work I qued him up. One of my favorite songs is “In the Middle.” The chorus inspires me when I think about the transition we’ve been through at C3. We could have played it safe, we could have [...]

it’s friday, i’m in love…

with my new grill! For Father’s Day/Birthday, my wife hit a home run by getting me a new stainless steel gas grill. We’ve been without an operable grill for almost a year, so we’re making up for lost time. We’ve been grilling 4 – 5 nights a week after our trip to the meat market. [...]

IPDE – Part 2

Now that we’ve made the connection between driver’s ed and following Jesus (see yesterday’s post), let’s explore what separates those that “E” from those that just IPD. I believe our answer can be found in the story of Jesus praying at Gesthamane (Matthew 26:36-46).
Jesus is close to his death. He feels it, senses it just [...]

IPDE – Part 1

If anyone knows what those initials stand for, then you paid close attention in your driver’s ed class. I took drivers ed in high school and loved it, mostly because I had an inside track with the teacher and he let my buddy and I whip around the parking lot to set up the track [...]