If you are by any chance reading this to start your day, here’s something to mull around in your thoughts for the day. Allow the Spirit to speak to you through this verse:
“Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and [...]
Going off of this post… I will start posting these kinds of things when they come to mind…Here’s the first.
You’re heard it said that you look cool and feel important by walking through the airport on a business trip in a suit with your collar unbuttoned while talking on your PDA/Phone…
…But I tell you its [...]
I was sitting at a Krispy Kreme donut store with my wife, mom and son today right near O’Hare airport as he joyfully watched the planes fly in one after another. When you sit right in the flight path around here, a new plane comes in about every minute or so. Where [...]
My wife and son and I landed in Chicago today. We’ll be here till tomorrow morning when we head up to Wisconsin Dells to spend Thanksgiving with my side of the family there. I just got done with a late night run to Gene & Judes which is simply the best hot dog stand [...]
In recent years there has been a lot written on the “missional church.” Often I think the way we explain it is kind of vague and we speak of it in too general of terms. It’s really easy to talk about the ecclesiology of what it means to be missional, but not necessarily [...]
I am sure I’ll be online and making a few posts. But we are heading to Chicago for the weekend to see my family. Unfortunately we will be flying out tomorrow and the airport will be a mess.
Though Cole is definately going to be excited in the morning when we tell him we are [...]
I have done a good amout of reading about the missional church, incarnational church, etc. At The Well, we’re doing our best to embody these values. Sometimes we do well, other times we really stink it up.
Most of the concrete examples I have seen in most of my reading and personal interaction with [...]
From the song “Who Am I” by Casting Crowns:
Not because of who I am,
But because of what You’ve done,
Not because of what I’ve done,
But because of who You are,
I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean (ocean),
A vapor in the wind,
Still You hear me when I’m calling,
Lord, [...]
Here is a video of my son, Cole that I make on my computer last week.
It’s a little large so it might take a while to load. But its worth seeing his many amazing talents.
What do you do with Jesus?
Who is he to you?
Yeah. Sure. He died. He was buried. He rose again.
Yeah. I believe that. Sure.
Now I can go to heaven right?
I have been washed with the blood of the lamb.
I am white has snow.
Well great. Good for you.
But.
Have you met the risen savior?
Have you [...]
I sent this e-mail out to our church family today regarding our Community dinner together on sunday night.
Most of the time when I think of a “community dinner”, I think of the fun that it will be to sit down with my church family, fellowship together and tell bad jokes.
While this is true [...]
In one of my last posts, I made reference to the power of simple things and the power in sticking your arm elbow deep into paint buckets. (Read it here).
I came across a post from someone who continues to inspire and challenge me to follow Jesus more fully (I have never met him [...]
I have added a new section to this website called “stat credits” which shows some of the software, plug-ins and other info about this site for those of you who blog, want to blog or are looking to make your blog better, or have extra time to look at boring technical stuff.
I was talking to a friend the other day about how we use powerpoint for our sunday worship (while i like keynote better as a whole, the in-show interface for PP is better). Anyways, i have all of our songs in individual files and was thinking about putting them up on this site for [...]
I am finally back home. What can one say about this weekend. I am not really sure that anything I write will capture it completely. Yeah. I am pretty sure of that.
There was definitely a lot of mourning for me over the sudden and strange loss of my uncle. While [...]
For those of you who use a RSS reader, my feeds were all screwy after I updated wordpress. They should now be fixed so update your feeds!
From this article, unworthy of my linking to it, but this kind of stuff makes me so angry. I suppose this moron would say that my uncle got lost in the woods because of some deep sin. What a bunch of bull crap. (i would be tempted to say worse, but my mom [...]
My grandfather, Harold Longenecker, who is one of my favorite people of all time, spent some time with us as a family today talking about how to deal with grief. He said that it comes from the things he has learned over his many, many years of pastoral ministry. I thought it was [...]
I have been developing a great appreciation for design that is clean, simple, elegant and usable. I think one of the greatest mistakes designers make is to do “too much” and get way too complicated. A good, clean and simple design requires a lot of restraint but usually results in something that [...]
This is a link to an article in the paper on my uncle’s (Gordon Longenecker) death. It gives a general account of what happened.
Also, here are the posts that I have written about this weekend for those of you who are wondering how things have been going. I’ll update this as I [...]