Back to school!!! Here’s a post I wrote two years ago when our students went back to school, like they’re doing today. Most of our high school students go back to school today. As I wrote about last week I used to dread the beginning of the school year. As a youth pastor, though, IRead more
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Another week of summer, another week at summer camp. This week I am at Hume Lake for junior high camp. I love Meadow Ranch, Hume’s junior high camp, and I love hanging out with junior high students. They’re so weird, so awkward and not yet too cool for school. Junior high students are game forRead more
I know a lot of adults who say that they don’t really have a best friend. I don’t know if they think a best friend is something for children. I feel badly for people who don’t have a best friend, though, because I’ve got two! Today is my best friend, Nate’s, birthday. We’ve known eachRead more
The Prime Directive is Starfleet’s most fundamental governing principle. It states that Starfleet personnel should never interfere with other cultures and civilizations. This includes not getting involved with other advanced civilization’s civil wars or influencing the progression of less developed cultures. The Prime Directive is all about non-interference and not engaging with different cultures inRead more
Some of our favorite nerdclinations tell us to lift our eyes and look up. We’re told to look in the sky because it could be a bird, it could be a plane or it could be Superman. Star Trek encourages us to look to the stars and hope for a future in which humanity hasRead more
The Cubs kicked off their season last night. Even though it was a loss, I’m still hopeful. In honor of a new baseball season and the celebration of hope yesterday on Easter, here’s an older post I wrote about hope springing eternal. The Chicago Cubs kicked off their 2013 season yesterday. I’ve been a fanRead more