Month: April 2014
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Everything is NOT awesome
A few months back when the new Lego movie came out, we took our sons to see it. The movie was great. It kept their attention. And we loved it. (My 3 sons are so wildly in to Legos right now!) The theme song to the movie is a very catchy pop song called Everything is Awesome! …
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Resurrection Eggs Video with my son
My wife has been teaching our kids about the Resurrection of Jesus. She uses a dozen Easter eggs to help them learn it. It seems to work really well. Here is a cool video of Noah (3 years old) explaining what each of the eggs mean. Egg 1 = a leaf – the people waved…
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what I took away from T4G
Last week was the biennial Together for the Gospel Conference. As a pastor attending a conference with some 7,000+ other ministry-minded people, I was very encouraged. Here are some of the gems I took away from the conference. The theme this year was “Unashamed.” The emphasis was on evangelism. Thabiti Anyabwile – “wrongly in our…
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“…he made me a priest though…”
Trip Lee’s song “One Sixteen” on his newest album The Good Life is one of the most popular songs to come out of the Reach Records 1-1-6 camp. The song includes K.B. and Andy Mineo. Trip Lee has also written a book called The Good Life. The song has a pretty cool design to it. Each of…
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“young man, are you happy?”
Just the other day I was standing at the gas pump in Fairdale (pictured below) filling up my car when an older gentleman caught me by surprise. Unexpectedly, from the adjacent gas pump, he blurted out “young man, are you happy?” Startled by his voice and volume, it took me a few seconds to process…
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“what will happen to him?”
I recently read a powerful quote! Perhaps we need to reverse the question. The first question that the priest …and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But the Good Samaritan … reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will…