Holiness Reeducation

Wow April has come in with a bang. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week and the start of a ridiculously busy April in my life. From Holy Week to Easter to coaching 7-10 year old girls fast pitch softball to trying to buy a building to working on budgets to District Assembly [...]

Has anybody ever written about Whitney Houston and Jeremy Lin in the same sentence before? Well this week they are linked by the rambling web of theology that incorporates my mind. Whitney makes me sad The news of Whitney Houston’s death over the weekend frankly wasn’t shocking at all. As soon as I heard about [...]

A Bunch of Disconnected Thoughts from the Super Bowl and my life on this fine Monday morning. Two moments on Saturday afternoon brought me great joy as a father. First, my son sat with me on the couch and watched an entire Maryland basketball game with me. I could tell it was a moment of [...]

Mama, don’t let your children grow up to be kickers. Whenever a field goal kicker misses my mother in-law feels bad, not for him, but for his mom. Watching your kid carry that kind of burden is tough. Well after yesterday’s games, Lawrence Tyne’s mom is relieved and Billy Cundiff’s mom is thankful her son [...]

A bumper sticker I read when I lived in Colorado, “If God’s not a Broncos fan then why are sunsets orange?” I am sure there will be a slew of new ones that say, “If God’s not a Broncos fan then why does Colorado run on Tebow Time?” The hoopla around Tim Tebow, his polarizing [...]

The secret to great Chili, thoughts on the timing of God, and tough days for virtually every team I root for, all in today’s ramblings… Cooking Chili for Jesus Saturday night our church hosted a Chili Cook Off and Cookie Bake Off to benefit our local food pantry. It was awesome. We had over twenty [...]

Too much swimming through my mind today to delve too deeply into any of it. So today’s ramblings will be shorter and random, just the way I like it. First things first, here is a video of Mike and I performing Soul Man by the Blues Brothers to close out our worship service yesterday. We [...]

Last wee was unquestionably the week of the quarterback. Half the league threw for over 300 yards, Tom Brady threw for over 500 yards and even Chad Henne threw for over 400 yards in that same game. What didn’t happen were running backs running wild. A couple of backs had really good days (Ray Rice [...]

It is too early to look matchups and which players to start for fantasy football so I thought I might offer my week 1 predictions instead. First, I predict that Aaron Rodgers and the Packers will come out on fire and hold on with a late goal line stand to beat the Saints on opening [...]

When all of the internet is abuzz about the University of Maryland’s football uniforms it is time for some garish uniform inspired ramblings…. Update – I just found this video from Under Armor for the uniforms, kind of makes me laugh and kind of inspires me! About those uniforms Last night the University of Maryland [...]