The Divine Crash

there is a tradition in my family of eating seafood on Christmas eve.  So every year we get our seafood ready, nothing real exotic or weird, just shrimp, crab cakes, popcorn shrimp, and maybe crab legs.  This year I noticed the package of peel and eat shrimp said deveined.

Today was great.  We finished preaching through Matthew backwards, we started before Easter and now we talked about the Genealogies.  On the surface this Genealogy looks boring, it is simply a list of people who are related to Jesus. Or is it more than that? You can listen to it here.

Yesterday was Christmas.  I actually woke up first, so I came downstairs, took the dog out, and had coffee.  By 8:30 my son woke up, he is 21 months.  After I got him out of his crib I changed his diaper and it was a mess.  There was poop everywhere, that diaper was so full. [...]

Last night we held a “Christmas Adam Service.”  I call it that because Adam came before Eve.  Holding our service on the 23rd allows the congregation (and the pastor) to spend Christmas even with their family.  For this service I didn’t really give a sermon, instead I read a kid’s book to the people.

This Sunday’s sermon was great.  It was the last Sunday before Christmas and except for the blizzard it went perfect.  The sermon was based on the prophesy that Matthew quotes from Micah 5:2.  Of course you can listen to the sermon here.
However, Matthew changes one word from Rule to Shepherd. Why would Matthew do this?

Recently my wife and I got new cell phones.  We both got brand-new phones that do everything from check email to update Twitter and Facebook and even call people.  Part of what made us decide to get these phones is that both came with a mail-in rebate.  The rebate made these super-phones cheaper than the [...]

I have the privilege (or the curse) to be both senior pastor and only paid staff member of my church.  This means I have oversight to all the ministries.  Yet at the same time, I also lead the youth ministry.  Frequently in any ministry, especially youth ministry people begin to think that their ministry is [...]

We all have a purpose in life, but how do we figure that out? John the Baptist knew his from the beginning but how do we decide what we should do with our life? My sermon attempted to start the discussion of that.