Husband. Dad to 5. Student Ministry Pastor. Follower of Jesus. Yatta yatta.

JUST ONE QUESTION

Tonight in our guys small groups, we stumbled upon a question towards the end of our discussion.  I liked it.  I think it has potential to increase the "get it" factor among our dudes if we press it for a while.So tonight I decided that I'm gonna put … [Continue reading]

PLANNING AND PRAISING

I've spent the last 2 days in planning meetings and prepartion for a thing we host each summer with some other churches called OGN.  This is the second time we've hosted the meeting at the Dana in Mission Bay.  Dang is this place pretty.  Makes you … [Continue reading]

WHAT THE….. WORLD IS HAPPENING HERE?

So, today was a fun morning at Encounter in our annual dating/sexuality series. We laughed, we thunk, we prayed, we talked, we read our bibles, we sang... good Sunday with some visitors, good student involvement, and pretty high engagement in our … [Continue reading]

THROUGH A CHILD’S EYES

There are a few people in the christian writer/ speaker/ pastor world whose words and teaching really rub me wrong. By way of an example, there are a few whose view about women I disagree with significantly. But then I remember those men are … [Continue reading]

SADDENED

One of the things I returned home to was a stack of magazines I had not read along with a DVR full of 24 episodes I can't seem to get to.But anyway, in the Newsweek article from Jan 19 I read this article and it wrecked me.  I actually printed in and … [Continue reading]