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Does anyone else go overboard with Christmas decorations? The people who run the Christmas sections at Menards and Target both know me by name all ready! I don’t know why but ever since I was a kid I’ve been obsessed with decorations. There’s nothing like watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas while decorating the tree.…

Did you know… My wife and I smooched for the first time over 17 years ago!  (We were actually only 16 years old! : )    Man, it’s amazing how fast time flies!   But my wife and I have been so busy with the church lately that we’ve almost forgotten to continue our seventeen year…

Well, for those of you who missed it, I did a 10-minute freestyle BMX video for my message last Sunday.  And, talk about a crazy response from people!  I had no idea our church had so many people of extreme sports!  Hopefully, we’ll have it online this week.   Honestly, I’ve been overwhelmed by people saying: …

People, I just got to do the coolest thing yesterday. Wow. I’m still buzzing over it. For those of you who don’t know, I do a lot of mid-week speaking engagements at various colleges. There is something that is absolutely fun about speaking to college students! In fact, it was these college events that first…

Substance church, we had another wild retreat this weekend.  And no: it wasn’t for the guys this time.  To use disco-speak: “It was ladies night.  And the feeling’s right.”  And to boot: we had a  record number of ladies at it!  So hats off to my wife and all the leaders who made our Women’s…

Are you getting tired of all of these political ads? I think the ones that get to me the worst are the commercials that highlight all of their political opponents attack ads.  In other words, it’s an attack ad that is attacking the morality of their opponent’s attack ads?  Hmmm?  Something seems strange about that…

Well, I guess we are an officially “known” church in the Twin Cities.  After all, we just got our first Star Tribune article written!  We got two pretty large pics… one of which was a 8 x 10 spread across the front of the variety section.  Of course, I was uncertain how it would turn…

What is up Substance! I am completely excited to welcome you to my new blog.  For months my staff have been telling me: “Pastor, you need to get a ‘pastor’s blog’ going!”   And I have resisted… mainly because I am a natural writer.  And I’m afraid that I’ll end up lost in the blogosphere…