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journal entries from an emerging follower of Christ

Lessons From Sports (part 3)

| March 5, 2010

A few weeks ago Katy and I (at her request) went to a NHL hockey game.  I had not been to a hockey game since middle school and I’m not sure if she had ever been, but we thought it would be fun.  And it was.  I went all out and got us the ‘all [...]

Lessons From Sports (part 1)

| February 28, 2010

The Atlanta Hawks are the closest professional basketball team to where I live.  I love the NBA!  I would go to as many games as I could for any team.  I went to a lot of hawks games even when they were bad and though they are not my favorite basketball club, I have grown [...]

Voting On The Will Of God

| January 15, 2010

A couple months ago Perry Noble posted on his blog a list of ways to kill the vision of your church. Number nine was simply “Vote!” Just reading that struck a nerve and made me want to write about it. Actually I’m surprised I have gone this long without blogging on congregational voting before as [...]

“Solid” Church

| November 29, 2009

A little over a year ago I was eating at an Applebee’s in Chattanooga when a college friend spotted me and came over to talk.  In getting an update on my life he found out about my leaving the church I had been on staff at and proceeded to ask me what church I was [...]

My Response to The SBC Conference

| August 2, 2009

Here are some excerpts from a piece our local newspaper ran a couple weeks ago covering the annual Southern Baptist Convention conference. Southern Baptists are facing a membership decline that could shrink the nation’s largest Protestant denomination by nearly half in 40 years, its convention president said Tuesday. The Rev. Johnny Hunt, a megachurch pastor [...]