American Thanksgiving is on the wrong date. The Canadians have it right, and celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of OCTOBER, as the Pilgrims intended. President Lincoln got many things right, but was allowed by God to make this one glaring error to prove to the world that even he wasn’t omniscient. Now you …
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A Dad’s Dilemma
What do you do when your kids are grown and gone, but you still hope to speak into their lives? DadCast. Clay Holderman, a dad from our church came up with this cool idea. He would get a question from one of his adulting kids. Then he would ask the dads in his small group …
Why Cancer?
In July of 2012 I was speaking at a 5th - 6th grade summer camp. The first night I asked all the kids to write down a question for God and to hand it in. One girl, Kristina Rae Barrett wrote, “Dear God, Why did you give me cancer?” I knew Kristina’s dad since he …
Wrong Worship
What is wrong with this chart? Last week Ryan Prieb, our Youth Guru drew this illustration for me. We go to a football game, a play, a concert, and there is a director, the participants playing on the field or on stage, and us in the stands. So, we go to worship, and we feel …
Kids Devotion Idea
I recently received this email from someone and thought it could be helpful. Hello, I thought I would tell you that we got Bizarre Bible Stories, and I started doing our family devotions with it yesterday morning. The first story was about Balaam and the donkey, and after we read the devotion the kids asked …
Christian Bourbon?
This week I got a 100-word email after my sermon that had an 8-word line in it I’d like to memorize. Our sermon topic was Awkward Church, which got this individual thinking. I hope you like his email as much as I did. When I was about 11, we stayed with my grandparents for about …
Awkward Church
What is your dream church? What kind of music, kids program, messages do you most like? If we found our dream church, would it be good for us--or would it limit us? I know what my dad would have liked. His dream would have been the Blackwood Brothers leading hymns, George Beverly Shea singing the …
3 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Memorial Day
This was my blog for AnchorPoint Church this week, but I thought it fit here too. Before I get to the three things – I wanted to explain the picture. My Dad didn’t die in WWII, but I still remember him on Memorial Day. My sister found this picture after Mom died, with the writing …
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The Illegal Grad Speech
What is the world so afraid of? We have sex education, gender identity, and abortion on demand, but seem paranoid to let a High School Valedictorian speak the name of Jesus. Me thinks they protest too much. Below is a short, stunning speech by Jennifer Swadell, Valedictorian of San Diego's Grossmont High School in 2015 …
Mom’s Day
My mom was born Dec. 12, 1922 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Last week at church we talked about what Ecclesiastes calls "crooked days." It's Solomon's way of talking about hard, suffering, difficult bad days, and my mom had a few of those. She was the youngest of seven kids, and the light in her dads eyes. …
Dan Cooley - The Ir-Reverend 