I am ready for this semester to be over…the amount of schoolwork has killed me. I think this is the last semester I am going to be full-time.
Owen is starting to have a lot of humor…I am sure many of you have seen my or Rachel’s posts on twitter, facebook. He knows he is funny too – how do I [...]

It has been a little over four months since I took on the leadership of the student ministry at my church and can absolutely confirm that this is the right place for me. Like I said in a previous post, I truly believe that God has called me to this specific generation (those that are currently in junior high and [...]

I am fan of the band OneRepublic. And they have this song that I have absolutely been digging lately called Marching On. With lines like, “For those days we felt like a mistake, Those times when love’s what you hate, Somehow, We keep marchin on” or ” We’ll have the days we break, And we’ll have the scars to prove [...]

Have you seen this show? It seriously has to be one of the best shows on television right now and the fact that MTV produces it is (a) surprising – most of their shows are kind of like crap and (b) awesome – because the production quality is pretty stinkin sweet, the soundtrack is nice, and it is culturally relevant.
What [...]

As I venture in new ministry roles at GracePoint Church I thought it might be time to give the blog a facelift and create it for more of a portal for everything I am doing…don’t know how long I will keep it this way but it’s a start.

For those of you that are not part of the social media phenom called Facebook, yet have access (and apparently time) to the internet, I will make things a little easier for you and offer an update – FROM RACHEL – on the news we recently received in St. Louis. So Rachel posted this lil’ ditty on her facebook page [...]

“My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled.”Hosea 11:8

O, that our hearts would be turned over, that our lovelessness would be toppled, our hard-heartedness shattered, and our coldness melted by the compassions of God Himself!
O, to love You as you are, to love righteousness, justice, and compassion, and to love human souls as You do! Give [...]

So for those of you at GracePoint this morning, I told you I would post the 40+ New Testament verses that talk about this idea of “one another”. If you didn’t get the chance to join us this morning or are one of my friends from outside of the “GP NATION”, I will post the link to the video when [...]

The plaque removal surgery was this morning, it went great (and fast). Rachel and general anesthesia really don’t mix well, so it was a longer morning of her trying to recover from the anesthesia. She says her eye feels better, but there are still stiches in there which I am sure she will feel after the drugs wear off some. [...]

Rachel posted some thoughts on her Facebook page tonight, so I thought it would be better to have her share tonight than me. We go into surgery to remove the eye plaque at 7:30 in the morning…We are very hopeful that the plaque has destroyed the tumor and we will anxiously await for the test results on the biopsy that [...]