Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Consumerism, Entertainment on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Philadelphia phenom: This Guy
While I would love to celebrate the victory of our very own Philadelphia Soul in Arena Bowl XXII, it sent my mind in a different direction. Two weeks ago, the Associated Press ran a story that was the cover headline on the Bucks County Courier Times: “Leaders Running Out of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today, we were in Bristol Borough. Bristol is an old industrial port town. The houses are close together. The streets have old shoppes. There is a place where town begins and ends – when you are in Bristol, you know you are in Bristol. While the town is run down, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was the Bucks County Forum on Suburban Poverty. While the content of the event deserves its own post which will come post-mission trip, I wanted to share a thought on the evening as a whole. I seriously stressed about this event. It is one thing to screw up in front of your own [...]
Posted in Bucks County, tagged Bucks County, Feasterville, Locality on July 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The real reason I started this blog was to document the work of God in Lower Bucks County. I live in the town of Feasterville. Feasterville is the kind of unincorporated suburban sprawl that you can drive through without ever knowing you were in it. We have traffic lights. And chain [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bucks County, Mission Trip, Providence on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Next week is our church’s mission trip to Lower Bucks County. And this week was, depending on how you look at it, either the week of total disaster or the week of God’s miraculous providence. On Wednesday, our service day in Trenton fell through, our location for our garage sale disappeared, and our sound guy [...]
Posted in 4496, Me on July 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »
There comes a time in every man’s life when he succombs to social pressure and becomes a faceless product of corporate marketing. I call it a blog. Why, you ask, have I started a blog after years of resistance?
1) To get a book deal. Self-promotion is the name of the game.
2) To be hip. I’m [...]
