I spent yesterday in a 12-hour meeting with our pastoral staff. It included a nice dinner, but it was still a long day. In light of my long meeting and long day, I thought I’d republish this post about the worst nerdy meetings. As a pastor I sit in a lot of meetings. Yesterday IRead more
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We are in the middle of our church’s annual VBS. It has been a tremendously busy week but just as rewarding. Here’s a repost about different nerdy VBS themes. Our church’s Vacation Bible School begins today. There’s nothing like hundreds of children screaming, laughing, having fun and learning about Jesus. Every VBS curriculum is basicallyRead more
This past weekend I preached at church. We’re in a series called Hello…My Name is God; we’re looking at the different names of God throughout the Bible. This past weekend we looked at the name Yahweh-Sabaot. Yahweh-Sabaot translates as Yahweh of Hosts, Yahweh of Heaven’s Armies or Yahweh of Angel Armies. For the purpose ofRead more
Yoda. Gandalf. Dumbledore. They all have something in common. Yoda was older than Luke. Gandalf was older than Frodo. Dumbledore was older than Harry. They were also full of wisdom. Wisdom that they were willing to share, as long as Luke, Frodo and Harry were willing to listen. I am tremendously blessed to serve onRead more
Not to rub it in for any of you experiencing record cold temperatures, but the weather has been pretty awesome for a couple weeks in southern California. When other parts of the nation have hunkered down to avoid dying from the cold, I’ve been walking around in shorts and sandals. For those of you bravingRead more
It is fantasy football time again. As I’ve already confessed, in spite of my tremendous nerdiness, I love sports. I love watching sports, I love playing some sports and I love fantasy football. I’ve already had one draft and I have three more coming up this weekend. I know a lot of nerds don’t likeRead more