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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

One of the points Nancy made was that community is not perpetual niceness. I think this is one of the things that hurts the church the most. We are perceived as Ned Flanders, or anyone on TBN. Community is not us pretending that everything is ok. That’s pseudo-community. I think the best definition I have

We are starting this week our fall campaign where we as a church focus on one aspect of our Christian walk. This fall we are focusing on Community from our Children’s church and Youth Church to the Adult weekend experence. Last week we had a guest speaker at our church Nancy Ortberg, she was off

I went this last weekend with my good friend and fellow blogger pastor Mike Servello, to a youth conference in Kitchner Ont. Canada. We had a fantastic time. We meet the youth pastor Paul Dunk and his wife Susan. They are wonderful people we hit if off right away. It is always so great to

I love this one, another one of my favorites. It makes me think of how we treat first time guests when they come to our church. 1. Do we make sense? Are we speaking in jargon, insider language? 2. Do do things on Sunday morning out of tradition that have no function. 3. Do people

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have recieved, and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” – Mother Teresa

One of the things that I in my old age have grown to love is reading books from people who I disagree with. I think it helps me separate what I really believe from what I believe because I have heard it talked about enough. Why I liked this book. It further cemented in my

Today is my wife’s birthday. There is so much that I appreciate about her. She is such a blessing to my life and to our family. I thank God for special days like birthdays because they help to refocus us on the things that really matter. I appreciate all the time and energy my wife