October 2007

We went as a family to our “semi-local” apple farm. We go every year. Why do we brave the elements, drive 45 min. out of my way? For the experience. They have a horse and wagon, they have a corn maze. I want my kids to have the greatest memories. There is something in me […]

I know the past few weeks I have put up videos that are funny. This week I wanted two put up two videos that have inspired me. Some of the first things these two videos did for me was challange me to look beyond the surface to see people not as I would see them

I came across a post on Perry Noble’s blog through one of his staff guys Tony Morgan. By the way both of them have fantastic blogs and are seeing God do amazing stuff in their church Newspring Church. They are starting a series about parenting called The perfect Kid. They have put up a website

What is more important being Original or being Effective. One of the reasons I think that we are stuck with flannelgraph Jesus is we care more about NOT copying Disney at the cost of overall effectiveness. I think for some reason we feel that to embrace any of Disney, Nickelodeon etc.. means embracing it all.

Why does preschool have to follow the same order of service as the adult worship service?     I began thinking why does the typical church preschool classroom reflect the typical worship service. The typical program looks like this. 1. Kids come into the room 2. Free Play 3. Kids are focused and sing generally

What do kids need to know?   The goal of teaching kids is not the transfer of information. The goal of teaching is internalization of life transforming truth. Kids need to know. 1. God loves me 2. I need to love others 3. I need to help others 4. I need to live for Jesus

If you don’t know it’s broke you can’t fix it. Can you imagine if we all still had square wheels? I think someone had to come along and say there has got to be a better way. I had a square wheel moment the other day when I received a shipment of PreSchool curriculum that

It is with a heavy heart I blog this post. My New York Yankees suffered a loss of literal Biblical proportions. I think I witnessed the first Baseball game played during a quasi-biblical plague. I fear for Cleveland if the Yankees do not win today. All I have to say is Lambs blood Cleveland. We

I got my new MacBook this week so I thought it would be appropriate to include a video that introduced macs to the world which just happened to be the first “super commercial” that has created the super commercial crazy during the Superbowl. Steve Jobs is Willie Wonka. Love my mac! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dODhLDUZEak]

The Bad and the Ugly of community. The next point that stood out to me in Nancy’s talk was how the second hallmark of community is conflict (the first one being inclusiveness). I was totally blown away. I would never have guessed she would say conflict. She said that we should be regularly be saying