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Tag Archives: local church
big city adventure
tonight i go to bed a kansan. tomorrow night i will sleep as a missourian for the first time ever. when i took the job at watkins mill, we planned to move to missouri to give me a shorter drive. … Continue reading
Posted in family life, missional living, personal journey
Tagged choices, cultural engagement, Life Time Fitness, local church, loft, poverty, relationships, urban renewal, YMCA
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checking in, pushing pause, turning the page
leaning into the challenge. today marks the end of my first 6 months on my new job. there were multiple times during the first couple of months when i had serious doubts i would make it, but around the first … Continue reading
halloween isn’t so bad after all. i guess.
let’s be honest. halloween is about my least favorite “major” holiday. (assuming you don’t count ones that nobody really cares about except for the sale at nebraska furniture mart, or the ones created by hallmark.) for the past week, the … Continue reading
no cost at all
big italy pepperoni from pizza hut, breadsticks, and a 2-liter of mountain dew = $17.11 with spouse-of-employee discount 12 sundae cups from target = $4.34 noon to 1:30 to drive from point a to b to c = 90 minutes … Continue reading
Posted in church and ministry, missional living
Tagged Ben, evangelism, grief, local church, middle school, relationships, volunteer youth ministry
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keeping it one hundred
amidst the culture shock of new faces, new roles, and new terminology, i’m also learning (or re-learning from my days long ago working in a group home) some new phrases from what i guess you could call hip hop culture. … Continue reading
on the outs
“safety and structure are the foundation of treatment.” it’s first on the list of d.y.s. beliefs and philosophies. each of them appear on the wall of every classroom and dorm in every facility. all the staff and kids know them … Continue reading
whoa, oh, la la la
from the earliest days of my life with Christ, i have loved to worship through singing. from the days of hosanna, to vineyard and sonicflood, on through mercyme and the passion movement that continues to lead so many in, well, … Continue reading
Posted in church and ministry, theology
Tagged local church, middle school, music, worship
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diminishable me: an open letter to myself at 19
hello andrew. greetings from… yourself… in the summer of 2010. yes, i know that sounds weird. i thought about sending myself (you) back in time, but then i remembered that the terminator movies haven’t come true yet. no time travel … Continue reading
i have a dream
i am happy to join with you today with the utmost respect for the day we celebrate our independence as a nation. inspired by the great civil rights leader whose impact i could never hope to duplicate, nevertheless I believe … Continue reading
engaging hope in a thousand ways (we fall down, but we get up)
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz, snort, hack, yawn… I’m up, I’m up. It was a shorter mission trip week than we’ve had in many years, yet I am also physically more tired than I’ve been in a long time. We returned only moderately late … Continue reading
Posted in church and ministry, missional living
Tagged Ben, local church, missions, relationships, urban church
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