I love the Arthurian legend! When I was 10, my mom and I watched the classic Excalibur on TBS one Sunday afternoon and ever since I’ve been hooked! That movie was/is so good – I mean Captain Picard before he was famous and Liam Neeson prior to just being awesome![…]
Vision – Get a Life
Nehemiah was is a pretty cool character in the Hebrew Scriptures. Here’s a guy who was a Hebrew that was serving the Persian ruler and heard that his homeland was in disrepair, neglect and was an embarrassment to the people of Yahweh. Scripture says that when Nehemiah heard of the[…]
Preparing…
Joy’s been trying to get me to listen to a CD she downloaded from Itunes about a month ago. Yesterday, I finally put it on my ipod and this morning as the boys and I were on our way to school, we cranked it up. I’ve listened to a LOT[…]
Ownership – mine or not?
I know this may come as a bit of surprise to many folks who read my blog, but I’m a bit of a control freak (insert laugh or no way here). Seriously, I like to know what’s going on and I love sitting down and thinking about how to “pull[…]
Stretching
I’ve been given a lot of blessings in my life. One of the greatest (outside of my fabulous wife and way cool kids) was to travel to Costa Rica on 3 different occasions. I’ve been to several different countries, though am no world traveler, but there is something about this[…]
Threads – Part 3
Freedom is a funny thing. It’s something those of us in the Westernized world value more than just about anything. We state that it’s the very reason for our existence as Americans. The source of our collective wisdom, Wikipedia, sates the following definition of Wisdom: is the state of not[…]
Threads – Part 2
We’re spending time right now in a specific passage in the book Acts (2:42-47) and we’re looking at the elements or threads that were a part of the first community of Jesus followers following the Resurrection. These threads were interwoven into an amazing tapestry that has continued to influence and[…]
Threads – the rituals of the early church (part 1)
The Threads series is a focus on those elements of the early church that kinda set them a part early on in their life as a community. We’re using Acts 2:42-47 to uncover some of these pieces and how they relate to the 21st century. Last week at our worship[…]
Threads – Part 1
Acts is without a doubt one of my favorite books in all of Literature (not just Scripture). There is something deeply amazing about this book. Obviously, it has a ton of stuff that God is doing through the Holy Spirit – in fact, one of my professors challenged us to[…]
Back in Town
Scripture tells us that 6 days before the Passover, Jesus went to visit his friends in Bethany (John 12). Bethany is an interesting little town – it’s about a mile and a half from Jerusalem and it’s name means house of figs. Many scholars believe that Bethany was a village[…]