God hijacked “our” ski trip

So this past weekend was the ski trip for the youth group at my church, and being the hapless youth minister, I naturally had the responsibility to plan it.  Being the somewhat (ok, honey, extremely) type-A person that I can be, I had a schedule, and a plan and all that good stuff. No matter [...]

When Eternity touches the temporal

As I’ve mentioned in a couple of posts, I’ve been hanging out in a hospital recently. My friend’s mom had been hospitalized Monday night with severe internal bleeding from multiple stomach ulcers that had developed as a reaction to some pain medication that she had been on (she’d had bypass surgery in Feb and her [...]

Profound Moment…

So, I am a morning challenged individual… If the alarm doesn’t go off, I don’t get up. And since I was hanging out at the emergent pub last night talking until like 12:30, I didn’t get in bed until 1:30 (that, btw, is my definition of “morning activity”!). Anyway, the moral of the story is, [...]

It Works!

Well, following that meeting Wednesday night that I blogged about (see the entry in the beachcomber blog labled “Fire”), I felt very strongly impressed by God that I not only needed to preach about the power of the Holy Spirit to my junior highers, but I needed to preach it to the college and high [...]