A home for some wonderful saints

One of the blessing of pastoring at Central Baptist is the near by locale of our denomination’s retirement home, Riverview Estates. As a pastor, I’ve been to many retirement homes over the years, and Riverview remains the only home I’ve ministered in that I don’t leave depressed. The staff and residents work together to make…

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Revelations

I love this photo from our Williamsburg trip, so I made a comic about it. It gave me a chance to play with a new release of Strip Designer.

Church of intensely laid-back whacky disciples

As last night’s deacons meeting our community garden was brought up. It’s produced a yield that we couldn’t have possible imagined, which has lead to the garden getting a tad over-run. It was brought up that the garden has been awesome, but we needed to lay out a plan to really put the “community” in…

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The hidden gem of OpenLP

At Central, we use the open source program OpenLP.org for our lyrics projection. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that some of the commercial apps have – but it’s simple, fast, and free. These are three great traits for a church running on a shoestring IT budget. OpenLP recently releases their 2.0 beta…

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The fall of a cultural icon

Monday night I went to a Borders for the last time. Well, the store signage said “Borders,” but it wasn’t like I remembered it at all. The cafe was closed, the friendly Borders staff was gone, and there were signs indicating the mark-downs available for any given shelf. In fact, there were no employees of…

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Why are you following me?

Every now and again I’ll get a friend request, or a Twitter notification that I’m being followed, from someone whose outlook on life is so divergent from mine that causes me to get a bit nervous. I enjoy blogging and sharing ideas, and even being honestly disagreed with, but I’ve also been attacked by the…

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