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    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It will be happy for me, as I face my first appointment at MD Anderson! I love it that it’s on St. Patrick’s Day because Patrick was a model missionary and great example of how we can share Christ in our culture. You can read more about it, HERE–…

Facts and Figures update:  I have an appointment locked down at MD Anderson cancer clinic in Houston, TX on March 17. This is good news because the path forward can begin. However, that appointment is conditional: I need the second opinion biopsy results sent down to Houston ASAP – otherwise, they will have to push…

On February 28th, 2020, Sean Lee, Grace Community Church’s pastor of Connection was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This blog includes many topics, but Sean will use it as a clearinghouse of information about his fight.   “Mr. Lee: You have lymphoma.”   I heard those words six hours ago after my visit with my otolaryngologist…

From now until about March 1, we're taking a close look at the Apostle Paul's letter to the Philippians. Did you know that Paul authored the content that makes up 2/3rds of the New Testament? He didn't start off doing that; every "book" he wrote was actually a letter(s) to a person (eg: Timothy, Titus…

Something you can count on - and we hope you will! - is that it's about this time of the year that excitement builds everywhere for Christmas. We see it in decorations at home and abroad, in commercials (of course), in theatres - even on Main Street. In fact - especially as Americans - it's…

In 1050, the Chinese started using a primitive compass to aid in navigation. Sure, Leif Erickson may have used ravens for navigation, but it was haphazard and required a lot of birdseed. But the compass revolutionized man's exploration of the globe. Now, here's the funny thing: the compass, which operates on the magnetic field of…

We got really weird at Grace!   We started the Weird Series on October 13th with the intention of rallying Grace around the flagpole of being different from the world's version of normal, not just because it's normal doesn't work, but because it's not obedient to God's commands.   My intention…

On the eve of the Weird Teaching series, it may be strange, but I am gleaning some great ancillary benefit not only from the book we're reading as a church, but also - and here's the strange part - a quote attributed to American business scholar W. Edwards Deming: "Every system is perfectly designed to…

Welcome to the Blog! Wait - What happened to the newsletter? In late July/early August, with Lendell Nolan leaving Grace (and Sean taking on responsibility for the web page, the Class 401 team, and needing to concentrate on Developing Leaders), it became apparent that I needed something LESS time consuming like doing lay-out editing on…