30 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Sting of Death

The Sting of Death

Today is Tuesday, March 30th. It is now just days before the Christian holiday of Easter is celebrated world-wide and starting with our sermon Sunday at Coastal Oaks Church, death has been on my mind. Not in a morbid, thought-consuming, mood-altering kind of way though; more in a reverent, “no one escapes it” kind of [...]

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18 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Get out of the bowl!

I have a daughter who will be 3 at the end of October and she is very much in the throws of toddler-hood. She sings songs, tells preposterous stories, and says lots of things that are just plain nonsensical. But hey, she’s a toddler. What more could I expect? One of her favorite things of [...]

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17 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Jesus is a Rock Star

I consider myself a patient man. Like everyone else, I’m sure I do better on some days than others, but there are a few things I simply cannot tolerate – they turn my stomach & cause my brain to think unkind thoughts. It’s a conflicting situation for anyone like me who is on a life-long [...]

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24 June 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Reflections from the Croc Dock, Days 1-3

This is VBS week for Coastal Oaks Church in Rockport, and I must say, it’s been a great week so far. We’re studying the Old Testament passages in Exodus concerning God’s deliverance of Israel out of Egyptian slavery using a man named Moses as his mouthpiece.  We’ve been through all of the 10 plagues that [...]

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