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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09 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Best Decision I Ever Did Make

The Best Decision I Ever Did Make

Ok, so maybe this statement isn’t exactly accurate. The best decision I’ve ever made was my decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ. But the 2nd greatest decision (and Mary is okay with this statement – I checked) was to ask and be granted permission to marry Mary Evelyn McDaniel on March 9, 2002 [...]

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28 January 2010 ~ 2 Comments

7 Helps for the Church Shopper

7 Helps for the Church Shopper

Let’s not pretend – finding a church is hard! And the myriad of reasons describing why “church shopping” is hard is as long as the ocean is deep. Sometimes it’s us, sometimes it’s them, and sometimes it’s both! A comment I read recently on Facebook from a recently reconnected high school friend caused the gerbil [...]

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23 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

My Wife, the Blogger-ette

My Wife, the Blogger-ette

I’m so proud… I feel like a proud parent who has just removed the training wheels from my child’s bicycle only to watch them take off with no problems! My wife, Mary, decided to take the plunge into the blogosphere and start blogging recently – maryebarlow.wordpress.com. You should check it out by plugging it into [...]

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16 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A Profile of the Obsessed, Pt. 2

A Profile of the Obsessed, Pt. 2

Last night as my wife, Mary, and I discussed yesterday’s blog post, she added a couple of things that were quite obvious to her concerning my compulsions, things I had apparently overlooked or with which I have become so comfortable, they are now normal to me. My CD collection is organized alphabetically and then by [...]

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