The original idea was to drive up to the Cohutta Wilderness, hike in three miles, and spend the night in the woods with the bears — manly camping. Well we ended up driving about 45 minutes away, driving right up to our campsite (furnished with water, electricity, and even cable tv), and spending the [...]

There’s been a good bit of talk about the definition of “secular” in regards to music on our church blog — mostly me ranting. It got me thinking about someone that played guitar on a record I produced back in 1999. I remember he had great songs but didn’t have the budget to give them [...]

Well the 80’s Nite went great. I played drums for an 80’s music review at Fellowship Bible Church — about 15 songs total. We practiced Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights from about 7:30 to 11:30. It wore me out playing that much as I haven’t played the full kit in a year and a half [...]

And now for something on the edge of meaningless compared to my last post. Well I’m starting a new project at work. I’m adding another level of enhancements to an online tool that has already been created. I got to take a tour of how the tool works, observe how the business uses it, and [...]

I’ve got a friend who is looking for a job now. He was telling me about how he had met with an older man in his church that is known for being a good “business man”. My friend was sharing with him how he was interested in working for a non-profit ministry — something he [...]

Growing up, I remember admiring this guy that wrote songs, played guitar and sang. He did the whole band thing and invested in synthesizers and drum machines. He fell in love, got married and became a banker or something. I remember asking him how his music was going after he got his job and he [...]

If you remember the movie Apollo 13, public appreciation for the moonshots was down and no one seemed to care about the missions anymore because they were becoming so commonplace — until something went terribly wrong. Well, it’s the same thing for the space shuttle program. We are just after a “something went terribly wrong” [...]

Here we are in our safe little world. It is small but it is everything to us. Gentle now, don’t disturb anything. If you apply too much pressure then something may lose its center of gravity. Then what? Like removing a link out of the natural ecosystem of the oceans, our little world would topple [...]

Does a “lifestyle of sin” automatically exclude one from grace? Can a practicing homosexual be a Christ follower? What about a practicing adulterer? Why does the church say “Yes” to one and “No” to the other? Let me explain.
I think everyone knows how the church generally feels about the idea of homosexuality. With passages from [...]

I was looking around to see if our family names were available as URLs (www.yournamehere.com) and I noticed that www.maegan.com was already taken. As I typed my daughter’s name into the browser, I was curious to see what kind of playful, digital vanity someone took the time to create and pay the required fees to [...]