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This past weekend was the last weekend on staff for our children’s pastor at Crosswinds. Her name is Rachael Wiest (pronounced “West”). She came to Crosswinds about the same time that we did, freshly graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University (where my cousin was a women’s softball star!! really! She broke all kinds of school records!…

We planted our first garden this year! We were so excited as the winter temps left (mostly… we are in NY, ya know…) and the gardening aisles began to fill up at WalMart… Ian couldn’t wait to grow veggies and even flowers out front! SO, one Monday (our day off) I headed out at 6:30am…

So, I was reading along, and came to this… 2 Kings 2:23-24 Elisha left Jericho and went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, a group of boys from the town began mocking and making fun of him. “Go away, you baldhead!” they chanted. “Go away, you baldhead!” Elisha turned around and…

I love reading the Bible. It’s actually rather entertaining. It’s history. I like history. But it’s history that unlike my high school textbooks, does not eliminate God from the picture. It puts him in his rightful place as director of history. I also find that reading about the crazy kings and all the people who…

Why do some people so passionately HATE Macintosh computers? They were the first and still make an amazing product that doesn’t even compare to the copies offered by Windows based system makers… It is rather amazing to me. I have had such a great experience with everything Apple that I would never want anything else…

I just flipped through a flyer for an upcoming national christian convention. We are not going… but boy did the flyer make me feel like I should. Glossy, attractive photos of all the best and brightest the christian industry has to offer. All in one place! And for a moment, I thought, “We should go!”…

At the moment, I am trying to figure out these things: The Purpose of Church Structure: Remember my blog on Church Membership? This is related… like, what’s the deal with picking some dudes (or dudettes) and giving them a title and saying, “OK, now… you all… watch over us, and make sure all goes well….

So, the other day – in between being mad – I had to laugh at myself. 🙂 You may have read here through the past several months, how God has already taken me to a place that is crazier than most people I know would like to be. That every week, every day, we are…

Memorial Day (2002) You gave your life So I could live in Freedom All you had All you could give for my freedom I’ve never known a love like this Unrestricted selflessness So right now on this special day We will stand and say: chorus We remember! We remember! how you gave your life for…

I mentioned before (actually several times) how I have been trying to make good use of my time. I felt recently like God was showing me how I was not doing very well in that category. And last night… boy, I could barely sleep at the daunting task of even making a DENT in my…