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Church Shopping

Recently one of my Facebook friends posted the link to this article: http://relevantmagazine.com/columns/church-today/16112-church-shopping. Church shopping has happened since we began naming our churches 1sts and 2nds (no offense to my fave 1st)... and this guy brings up some interesting points that I go back and forth on. First, I'm all for the little churches (as I'm in one) I'm all about the mega churches (since that's what I grew up in). And I DO tend to think of churches in the same realm/way that I think of businesses.... product of my MBA...and I don't think that's completely a negative. Some points of his that I will take issue with: He has a list of 8 things that he says are the "successful" churches method... 1. Celebrity Pastor.. works in some places, not in others. As long as the person is trying to live a Christlike life - not an issue for me. 2. Worship... he mentions it being a production & people more entertained than partic...

A beautiful day for the grid iron

So I'm playing football this "season". Two hand touch, co-ed. The old roomie and his wife are on the team as well as a couple other good friends. It's a fun hour of throwing the pigskin around and going from one end of the shortened field to another. Today we played our "rival" team (it's a past rivalry, we're too early into the season for real rivals yet). It's a fun team - they like to trash talk, in good fun. So was playing "hiker" (I know it has an official name - the person that hikes the ball to the QB, but this is the one I choose!). As soon as I walked up to the line of scrimmage I started ribbing the rusher (I can't be a part of the play at all after hiking and I told him that I was hoping he wouldn't run into my elbow or anything). We went back and forth for the whole game until he cracked me up with this line "Your hair smells so good. What shampoo do you use? Pantene Pro-V?" I couldn't help b...

Is this me?

A friend sent me this picture the other day and asked if it was me. I seriously thought he had photo shopped my face into the pic. Kinda scary.... (it's for a movie that I won't be watching or recommending)