I stayed up late last night watching it and woke up early this morning thinking about it. Of course I’m talking about the Lost finale. If you’re not a Lostie then you can stop reading now. If you haven’t seen the finale yet, you probably ought to bookmark this post and move on as well. […]
Archives for May 2010
It was a Good Home
As of 11AM this Friday–and assuming there are no ill-placed tornadoes in the next two days–we will no longer own a home in Oklahoma. I drove up to Tulsa earlier this week to get the last bit of our stuff from the house we’ve owned for the past seven years. Even though we’ve been living […]
May 19, 2010 by 6 Comments
Wednesday Nights Are Different Now
Another way that launching a new church is different from working in an established church is that Wednesday nights don’t suck anymore. Wednesday nights are the thing about my old life that I miss the least. A dirty little secret among many church staffers is that Wednesday night is their least favorite night of the […]
May 12, 2010 by 10 Comments
Losing It All (Why Jesus Might Give us a Noogie)
In a previous post, I shared my take on the “Parable of the Talents” in Matthew 25:14-30. I wish that Jesus would have had one of the guys invest and lose all of the talents he’d been given. How would the master respond that? If I were telling the story, here’s how I think the […]
May 10, 2010 by 1 Comment
Believing the Worst About God
Last week I did a teaching on the parable of the talents from Matthew 25:14-30. On the surface, it’s a fairly simple story. The master leaves large amounts of money with three servants. The master comes back expecting his servants to have made good use of the money and ready to show a profit. He […]
May 4, 2010 by 4 Comments
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons