Sunday I learned a very important lesson in youth ministry - when a kid says he's feeling sick, don't tell him to wait and see if he feels better, take him straight to the bathroom.  During Jr. Church on Sunday a little boy raised his hand and said he didn't feel good, but he couldn't tell me where it hurt, so I figured he just wanted to leave.  I ( Read more... )

Well, we closed on our house yesterday and began purchasing supplies for home improvements to be done on the house before we move in.  At times, this process has been a little overwhelming and stressful, but for the most part, it flowed smoothly.  We closed one day later than expected - due to president's day, not any problems with the bank, loan ( Read more... )

Have you ever tried logging into your email or anything with a password and it didn't go through, so you retype it slower and more emphatically as if your keyboard was being smart with you the first time?  I just did that and realized how dumb that was.  "i said P-A-S-S - W - O - - R - - - - D!"  What's wrong with me?  :)

Last week I was eating chicken nuggets and I ran out of ketchup, thinking we didn't have any left.  So I tried to continue eating the chicken nuggets, and I was suprised at how bad the nuggets tasted without ketchup.  At that point, Becci informed me that we had a new bottle of ketchup.  So I got some more and all was good.  But I started thinking ( Read more... )

Well, after having a blizzard's worth of snow here in Auburn, IN I have found enough white stuff to keep me distracted from the office.  I don't know what it is about snow, but whether you're sculpting frosty, engineering an village of igloo's and passage ways, or just shoveling like I have been all morning, moving snow is an enjoyable and ( Read more... )

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ WEDNESDAY.

don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today.

It's coooold out there every day.  What is this Miami Beach?

Not hardly.  And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know ( Read more... )

Question(s) of the day:

If a site existed that claimed to be a sort of "evangelistic myspace", do you think it would change the way teens utilize such sites?

Here's what I mean - right now things like myspace and facebook are basically used for the purpose of socializing on the internet, not bringing others to Christ.  While, as Christians, we do ( Read more... )

My frustration of the day is ...

People who are too passionate with compassion for a cause to help humanity that they can't speak sensibly or reasonably with other people (perhaps less passionate about their compassion) who are eagerly interested in aiding said cause, either monetarily or otherwise.

All my troubles seemed so far away.  I took the day off because Joe took the day off to come down and hang out with me.  I had some time in the morning before he got here to do a few things I've been meaning to do.  Becci and I went and checked out the new Christian bookstore in Auburn.  It was small, but had nice people running the place and I had ( Read more... )

Becci and I put an offer in on a house last Friday and our offer was accepted on Saturday.  They happened to lower their asking price, and so it looked better than it had before.  lol.  Now we are going through all the closing stages.  Hopefully we can start working on it by February 20th, the day after closing.  But right now we have the fun of ( Read more... )