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If you have a low tolerance for hearing about pain, or perhaps happen to be eating lunch, please stop reading.  I’ve learned that some people were grossed out by my discussion of blended meat products a couple of weeks ago. If you thought that crossed a line, from this post you will not be able [...]

We goofed, and I understand why some of you are frustrated. Sadly it wasn’t our first time messing up, and despite the fact that I only have 2 months left here at the Vineyard, it most likely won’t be my last. As we have done for years, we are holding a Good Friday Service this [...]

Last summer while Liz and I were over in Dublin, the 2011 census had just been completed several weeks prior. Today the first set of data has been released, and thought I’d list a few things that seemed worth noting: The population of Ireland has increased by 348,404 people to 4,588,252. (The largest the population has [...]

Over the past couple weeks I’ve tried a few times to sit down and write a bit…I’ve even woken up a few mornings with some great ideas, but by the time I start typing them out, they are either petty, emotive or just stupid.  So rather than subject you to that, I’ve just not written. [...]

Support raising is hard. Although there are weeks such as this one, when it seems that every conversation, email, phone or otherwise is encouraging, and at the same time, makes me thankful for the amazing people the Father has brought into Elizabeth’s & my lives! As you might guess, one of the most humbling things [...]

It’s been one of those weeks. Yesterday I was riding the bus into work and using the wordpress app on my iPhone to type a blog post about the vision of this church moving to Ireland to plant. Yesterday afternoon I went to publish it & well, it was gone. So I tried yesterday afternoon [...]

This weekend I watched a TED talk by author Susan Cain. It was the title of her talk, The Power of Introverts, that caught my attention. Growing up I was the kid who loved being by myself. Let me pick between a crowd of people, and a good book or some baseball cards by myself, [...]

One of the hardest things for me in serving as the lead pastor of a church is (besides the fact that I’m not all that pastoral) is the preconceived notions people bring with them about what a pastor is, and how they are supposed to interact with them. Even once we’ve gotten a person to [...]

Yesterday I mentioned that one of the things that is most exciting to me is seeing people who been disconnected from Jesus experience him in a real way for the first time. This video is one that one of our Ithaca College students prepared a couple years ago, and gives you a better idea of [...]

Last week I wrote a bit about wanting…actually, needing to focus my little corner of the interwebs a bit more than I have to this point. This space has usually ended up being a stream of consciousness more than anything else. And while I may create a space to do that again at some point, [...]