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My Most Popular Post
Since August of last year, I have made 5 posts on my blog. For those who struggle with math or calendaring, that almost 1 post ever 2 months. You can take that one of two ways. One, my life is exceptionally dull therefore I have nothing about which to write. Or two, my life is [...]
Birthday Pictures
Pictures from my birthday, including my cookie cake, Jacob’s gift to me (see if you can guess which one is his) and the party last night at AWANA.
Super Jacob Snow Angel and BowGirl
Last week, we had “Super Hero” night in our Wednesday AWANA program at church. When we asked Jacob whom he wanted to be, he said “Super Jacob Snow Angel”, who goes out in the cold and rescues people from the cold and brings them inside and sits them by a warm fire. It is quite [...]
Our Church’s Website
Go check out our church’s new website: www.springfieldbaptistchurch.org. It got significantly revamped a few months back and the content is mostly filled in. We still need to work on some more pages, but I am very happy with what we have. Shannon worked hard on the children’s section and it looks the best of any [...]
Baby Dedication ceremony script
As I mentioned last week, we had Ava’s baby dedication on Father’s day. As children’s minster, Shannon has had to come up with our baby dedication ceremony. We looked online for some resources for what to say, but she never found a script that she felt captured the spirit of baby dedication without being too [...]
Beaches, Lauas and Life In-between
Our last 2 weeks have been quite hectic but very fun. For Memorial Day, we took a trip down to Gulf Shores with the kids. It is an eight hour trip with a newborn and a 3 year old. Just past the half way point on the way down, I thought to myself, “What are [...]
Personal Challenges #3: Daily Bible Reading in Common Book of Prayer
In the last few years, I have been lax in my daily Bible reading. Partly due to me making a point to read deeper for longer periods of time rather than shorter daily readings. Basically, when I went to read, I wanted to read longer and deemphasize the shorter readings. I realize short daily readings [...]
Reflections on the Verdict
When people ask how we are doing in regards to the trial, my standard answer is “We are still processing it.” I like that. It shows hope, or at least not despair, but also a little elusive. It is also true. Because we not just reacting on a strong emotion, but working through a process [...]
What a last couple of weeks
I have not make any posts in the last few weeks because this site was pretty far down my list of priorities. On July 25, my friend Tony Dorris committed suicide. Tony had a history of drug abuse and in a dark state believed some lies about himself and took his own life. He was a member of my Sunday [...]
Speaker of the Day – Walter Nusbaum
Walter was a very influential person in my spiritual development. His strength was Christian apologetics and philosophy, but he was very solid Biblically as well. Along with some other men, I did a book club led by him for about 9 months where we read a variety of books of Christian thinking. Out of about [...]
