Holiness Reeducation

I just came back from the dentist and well now I have the unique ability now to flair only one nostril. It made me laugh so much that I made a video to commemorate the occassion. doma This past weekend my wife and I headed out to Dublin, OH for a leadership team and advisory [...]

Jim Collins wrote a new book called How the Mighty Fall, a look at once great companies that have fallen into decline or ceased to exist at all. In these changing economic times no book could be timelier. It is a great read (as are all of Collin’s books) and has some startling ideas within [...]

Don’t you know that there is nothing in your life that can happen to you that God cannot transform? Don’t you know that no matter what the world throws at you God can bring something good out of it. No matter how ugly your life may seem, no matter how many pieces you have been [...]

Why I married better than my wife This weekend was my wife and I’s 11th wedding anniversary. I was such a child when I got married. I think the naive ignorance of it all for both Gretchen and I have such a great marriage. We have grown up as adults together. But I would be [...]

Evidently a tornadoish storm hit part of our town last night  around 7:30 pm and I didn’t find out about it till I took my daughter to school this morning and found out there is no school today. Craziness. This article talks about the 105 mph winds that hit the town unexpectedly. Evidently the government [...]

The kids went back to school today. All throughout our town there was great rejoicing. I now have a first grader. That makes me feel old. I’m not old, but suddenly it feels like my time with my daughter has a countdown on it. It may be a 12 year countdown but the clock feels [...]

I just uploaded a podcast of my sermon from this morning, comparing the Dark Knight to the heroes of the book of Judges.

Forget the capital campaign, evidently all you need to do is hit the lottery. Got to love this story about a church winning the lottery in Michigan. Hey my church needs to do some building work, so I am off to the convenient store as we speak.

In my efforts to find religion fails all around us, sometimes you find a win.

Ka$h for Klunkers Is anyone else amused and amazed by the Ka$h for Klunkers program? I love the program because of how helpful/unhelpful/brilliant/idiotic it is. There are so many beautiful levels to this thing. On the one hand I think it is great, we are encouraging people towards fuel efficiency in a way that is [...]