Adventures in Syberspace

Game Plan 3.0 is here!

For those of you scoring at home, here's the scoop. My friend and former colleague Nic Gibson and I decided to write a book 9 years ago. It was for our graduating high school students, all the stuff we wanted them to know about how to grow their faith when they went to college. After a lot of brainstorming, and getting advice from lots of friends and students, we each wrote 8 chapters, and published it ourselves. Four years ago, Nic and his friends in Florida re-published it. It's now been published "for real" by Paraclete Press, with all of the chapters updated, and a new "My Story" section which features first-person narratives from 7 recent college grads giving their perspective on things that went well or didn't go well (one of my new favorite parts of the book). Scot McKnight wrote the foreword, and we've gotten some great early feedback. The book has its own website, and I'm also blogging about it at Scot's blog over the next 2 weeks. [Side note: Scot said today that I blog "sometimes," which is true. I realized that there's a difference between someone who blogs (people like Scot) and someone who HAS a blog (that would be me).] Anyway, I'd love your comments/feedback/etc, and if you're interested in buying a copy, the easiest way to do that is through Amazon. It's also available for the Kindle! If you'd like a volume discount, call Paraclete directly and talk to Bob Gibson at 800.451.5006.

I Was a Teenage Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow is the Stairway to Heaven of writing. Anyone who even barely knows how to play guitar can play some portion of the Led Zeppelin classic. And everyone who writes even the teensiest bit has written an article about Tim Tebow in the past few months. This is mine, published in the Chicago Tribune today in the Perspectives section.

Thought of the Day, February 2nd 2012

When Christianity says that God loves man, it means that God loves man: not that He has some "disinterested"... concern for our welfare, but that, in awful and surprising truth, we are the objects of his love. You asked for a loving God: you have one. The great spirit you so lightly invoked, the "lord of terrible aspect", is present: not a senile benevolence that drowsily wishes you to be happy in your own way, nor the cold philanthropy of a conscientious magistrate, nor the care of a host who feels responsible for the comfort of his guests, but the consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes.    ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Acting Like Jesus

Many of you know that I did a play a few years back where I played Jesus. It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. I wrote an article about it, and it got published in a journal for pastors called Leadership Journal. Here's the article.

My kids like Jif-To-Go

A Very Bratty Christmas

My kids were bored a couple weekends ago and made this video. Enjoy!

 

Video message for my dad

My sister and I are flying into Dallas this weekend to see a Cowboys game with my dad, in honor of his 65th birthday. This is how we told him about it:

 



O Come O Come Emmanuel

Click the link below to listen to the sermon I preached at Christ Church this past weekend on "Songs of the Season: O Come O Come Emmanuel" based on the Advent hymn. You can also listen at cclf.org.



Download sermon here.

You know what they say. The family that paints together stays together.

This morning at Galveston Urban Ministries

Guest blogging at Jesus Creed

I'm guest blogging today and next week at Jesus Creed about Kara Powell and Chap Clark's excellent new book Sticky Faith. Join the conversation!