Audio of this week’s sermon is now posted on the church web site. Click on the audio link on the right side of the page and you’ll find this Sunday’s sermon as well as an archive of some recent ones. I’ll post the text in this space occasionally, but sermons seem to always more effective …
This Week’s Sermon: Prayer Chain Pain (9/23/07) Continue Reading »
A.J. Jacobs has a new book coming out describing his experience of living nearly every rule in the Bible for a whole year. Jacobs was a self-described agnostic before the experiment and now calls himself a "reverent agnostic." The book, The Year of Living Biblically, is now available. An excerpt from the Newsweek interview with …
I was surfing on Slate this morning (which is a cool site if you’re interested in all things cultural) and came across a piece talking about the heavy price cuts Apple and its retailers are making on the new IPhone–dropping the price from $599 to $399. Now, if you bought one of the $599 phones …
A Nebraska state senator has filed a lawsuit against…God. Yep, Sen. Ernie Chambers accuses God of causing untold death and horror. He filed the suit in Douglas County, but claims that it’s a universal lawsuit because God is everywhere. Turns out Senator Chambers is upset because of another lawsuit and is suing God to make …
* Yesterday’s sermon had some copyrighted material in it, but you can listen to it online at our new web site. I got a lot of reaction to the Tony Campolo story I told and, if you want to read more, his book The Kingdom of God is a Party is a great one. I …
This has been one of those intensely busy weeks around here, full of meetings and running to and fro. In that vein, some things I’ve observed this week: – I read a review of Patrick Lencioni’s latest book Three Signs of a Miserable Job. Interestingly, the number one sign you have a miserable job has …
When I was in college I worked out at a little hole-in-the-wall gym on Philadelphia Street in Indiana, PA. The fitness center at school was always crowded or being used by a class, so I’d scrape together a few extra bucks to work out in this place that looked very much like the gym Rocky …
Sermon for 9/9/07: Grunt Work (Luke 14:25-33) Continue Reading »
My son Rob recently joined a youth flag football league at the Basin Rec Fieldhouse, which is really good for a little guy who inherited his father’s stature. It’s supposed to be a league for kids in 3rd to 5th grade, though some of these kids look like they’re ready to drive. Rob’s coach is …
Why Band Guys Should Never Coach Football Continue Reading »
Albert Argibay, a New York corrections officer, was lifting 500 lbs. of barbell over his head at a Planet Fitness gym when suddenly a siren went off and he found himself being escorted from the building by police. His crime? Grunting. Yep, he got bounced out …
Those of you who know me know that my obsession with books knows no bounds. I’ve always got a stack of them ready to read on my desk and there’s no more room for them on my shelves. Yeah, I should probably do a purge at some point, but my books are kind of like …
Jennifer has been back in PA this weekend helping her parents get their house ready for sale (they’re scaling down to a smaller place), which means I’ve been playing Mr. Mom all weekend. I really enjoy spending time with the kids like this, even though their diet may not be the most wholesome during those …
I’ve had a long-running fussy feud with The Salt Lake Tribune, our local "big city" rag. First it was the fact that the paper would arrive soaking wet from being dumped in the snow or rain. Then it was the fact that it didn’t come at all or came too late for me to read …
I came home from church yesterday and spent much of the afternoon watching the championship game of the Little League World Series between a team from Warner-Robbins, GA and a team from Japan. I watch a lot of baseball over the course of the summer, but this game was certainly the best so far. The …
Yesterday afternoon I finally got a chance to get my new mountain bike out on some single track and decided to hit the Glenwild trail. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Park City, the Glenwild Loop is one of the best trails around. The problem for me, however, was that it had been …
A poll by the Associated Press and MTV reveals that spending time with family is the number one source of happiness for youth ages 13-24. Spending time with friends came in second. That got me thinking about how churches tend to do youth ministry. When I was a youth pastor, one of the operative principles …