You’ll have t0 excuse me while I think out loud. Normally I’m sharing advice or inspiration with those who read this blog regularly (thank you for reading BTW) but today I have to have a little talk with myself (have you ever had to do that?). Feel free to listen in. I’m giving a lot…
Imagine God, in robe and slippers, opening the door to pick up the daily paper. He sits down upon his throne with a cup of coffee, slaps the paper open and sees the headlines God Isn’t Fixing This. God nods and reads, and after a few moments says, “I already fixed this.” and puts the…
I just watched the interview (below) with Sylvester Stallone and it made me think about, as I often do, how I would like to be remembered. Stallone admits to being typecast, in tv and movies, as the “mugger” or the goon. The movie Rocky was his crossroads. He says, “If I was ever going to…
I was watching the latest episode of The Walking Dead (Always Accountable, Season 6) and, as usual, I learn something. Sasha and Abraham are holed up in an office building where an office worker Walker is locked in in his office behind a glass door. Behind him is a white board where I am sure…
I saw this article on Buzzfeed and it made my heart jump to see a teenager, Essena O’Neill step up to the microphone and call out the phoniness behind many of the Instagram photos she took and the general phoniness of business of social media. I am not a girl, or a small group leader…
I have discovered a new fun way to make gifs and it’s called Boomerang. Boomerang takes one second clips and repeats them over and over again . I have a few Boomerang’s below. You can read more about the app here on Instagram’s blog. How would you use Boomerang in your youth ministry? Leave me…
It was 1982-83 and I went to see Quiet Riot with no idea who was opening. It just so happens that W.A.S.P was the opening band. They were not exactly my style. A few years earlier I had come to faith and in Christ and so I was not into the whole occultist vibe with…
The story from Oregon, regarding the Umqua Community College shooting, has several points which the media keeps hammering: Was this a religious hate crime against Christians Gun control laws Politics Mental Illness Loners The Internet Heroism How do we take these talking points and craft them into a meaningful message of hope? It’s a question…
I, like everyone else, are sick of hearing of these mass guns shootings by insane people. This latest shooting in Oregon rekindled my thinking on owning a gun. I currently do not own a gun, which in Alabama is some kind of sin, but I’m thinking about it. Recently, a man came into an Alabama…
The title of of this post is both a plea and a question. Let’s begin with my plea. As a Christian and a believer in Christ’s return, I wish Believers, across the spectrum, would stop hyping these events as “end of times” phenomenons. I wish they’d stop lauding the inkling, let alone “prophecies”, of so…
