I’ve missed you.
Missed you in ways that have resounded within the recesses of my soul for too long.
So much to say.
So many filters in the way. Longing for the day of speak easy, and speak freely.
Someday…even soon I think.
Anyway, one step at a time.
Feels good….
Archive for the ‘Hmmm’ Category
4 Nov
Hello Ol’ Friend…
13 Feb
What Could Iran and Alabama Possibly Have in Common?
God is a big big God.
So why is my view of Him is most often myopic? I see Him through my lens. And my lens is usually laser focused on my little corner of this universe. So anytime I can stretch that view, my God is magnified. And magnifying God is what we are all [...]
16 Dec
How Many?
from churchrelevance.com
QUESTION:
How many churches are in the U.S. today?
ANSWER:
According to the book Beyond Megachurch Myths, there were 320,000 Christian U.S. churches in 2007. Of these U.S. churches, 1,250 were megachurches with an average weekend attendance of 2,000 or more.
5 Nov
The One Thing…
Spiritual growth. How do I achieve this?
We all want it, right?
So what is the one thing, the one practice that will accelerate growth more than any other discipline?
In Follow Me, the second book out of the Willow Creek Association and follow-up to their incredibly insightful REVEAL research confirmed that a Christ follower who consistently stated [...]
30 Oct
Perhaps Greatest Dilemma of our Time
At lunch with a friend when it happened.
He orders his beverage of choice without ice – a drink that didn’t qualify for the free refill. His frugality was on full display. I had to question his strategy, he knew his stuff. Said he recently came across a science fair project begging to happen. Cold hard [...]
18 Oct
Moving Day
OK, the new digs are ready – today is moving day!
Head over to the new site:
www.HookedOnGrace.com
By purchasing the domain, it gives me a few more options to follow those strange instructions of the Holy Spirit.
See you over there!
- Roy
9 Oct
Forgotten Comma
A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight, or as a small [...]
3 Oct
Friday Quote…
“The number one issue in church leadership today? Pastors are given significant power, but with no maturity or experience in how to use it.” – John Eldridge
Fortunately he didn’t specifically mention your church or mine.
20 Sep
So You Are A Woman Pastor?
Better hope you are not featured on the cover of a prominent Christian periodical, or you will cause a major Christian Book Store – Lifeway – to pull the magazine.
Please say it ain’t so….
Agree or not with women serving as pastors, but pulling the magazine??? Did we not learn anything from the Disney boycott?
6 Sep
Devil Care?
“The devil doesn’t care how big your church is – he cares how influential it is.”
- Brian Houston, Pastor, Hillsong Church, Sydney, Australia
1 Sep
Do You Have To Go???
It was a choice I had to make.
There it was, sitting lonely on my bathroom counter – as sad, as I was, that today marks the unofficial end of summer.
In fact, it was sitting there next to my favorite watch – a necessary accessory yet antithesis of the lazy summer days.
Three things mean summer to [...]
29 Aug
Super Summer Slumber Party T-Shirt…
The Super Summer Slumber Party of ‘08 must have not been a bad dream…
All BIG events have t-shirts, right? 13 straight nights of sleep-overs qualifies as a big event – especially when the event is run by dad. Funny, why do we call it a “slumber” party or “sleep” over? Neither happened.
A HUGE thanks goes [...]
4 Jun
Mountain Moving Faith
The imposing structure rising above the town is Mount Crested Butte in Colorado. The view is from our balcony, just minutes after sunrise today.
After some incredible worship and prayer time, we hiked up about about a quarter of the mountain. Funny, Tampa is about 20 feet above sea level, where the oxygen is plenty and [...]
23 May
Grace Beach
Because some of you asked, here is a pic I shot from my cell phone of the sanctuary converted into a Beach.
What you don’t get are the sounds of surf and sea-guls, or even the bites of sand fleas that somehow came in with the sand. Check out the video HERE – click play [...]
12 May
God IS in the details…
Aesthetics are important.
There, I said it.
Before my highly charged testosterone friends bail on me, let me explain.
Maybe it’s because I live in a household of 5 highly charged estrogen ladies, or maybe it is just how God wired me, but the “fluff” as always appealed to me. While most men are straight vanilla, I [...]
25 Apr
Ummm….
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University .
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot and [...]
13 Feb
Closing Chapter…
The book is not done (it’s actually just beginning). But this blog chapter is finished.
Post # 1,109 – nearly 3 years straight.
Time for a break. Time for refreshment. Time for a refocus. How long? Not sure. 1 month? 1 year? 1 week?
I can’t imagine never coming back to this – I love it [...]
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