Purpose-Filled Families

This past week Lindsay wrote a fascinating paper on the Puritan family for her class at Gordon-Conwell. I was struck not only by her insight, but how many lessons we can learn & apply to our lives today. She was hesitant about me putting it on my Blog, but I convinced her anyway.
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Online Theological Quiz

Tony Marr sent me a link to an online theological assessment. Basically it asks you a bunch of questions & then spits out a result. I’m curious what you think. If you have some time, take the assessment & look at your results. Then please come back here & post a comment [...]

CPL #4: Let People Dance

Ok, on with the church planting lessons (thus the initials “CPL” above)…
I said before that I’ve never heard anything like the melody of love that God has written for us. Jim & I heard God’s unique melody and described how we thought it would sound in our church’s culture document. We’re finding that it [...]

Speaking of Coffee…

Here’s a video that some old friends in Dallas put together.  Enjoy!

Escher Espresso

Escher’s “Drawing Hands” has always been one of my favorites.

Now look what he did for my favorite coffee joint.
Who said Escher is dead?

Barking Myself to Sleep

Today, I finished building a fence for “man’s best friend” (our dog, Chloe). In all I paid $1000, about 20 hours of work, a good strong back ache, a nice sunburn and plenty of allergies.
So tonight was Chloe’s first night to sleep outside. As Lindsay & I were getting in bed she was barking. [...]

CPL #3: Play Your Instrument

Once you’ve heard God’s unique melody for your new ministry, He wants you to begin playing it on the specific instrument that He has given to you.
We each have a unique instrument that has been given to us by God. This instrument represents the specific passion, personality and life story that God has given to [...]