Random Thoughts on Life and Ministry

To go to ministerlane.wordpress.com for my new blog.

As I stated in my last blog entry, I am changing my blog address, and host as well. My new blog address is ministerlane.wordpress.com Pleas...

For a while now, I've been posting on this blog. The web address - www.youthministerlane.blogspot.com, is not quite relevant anymore. ...

I've been involved with churches that were big, and involved with churches that were small. The first church I worked for averaged abou...

A few days ago I posted some before and after pictures. Yesterday, I went back to Lifetime Fitness to have my fitness re-evaluation. Here ...

So true. So sad. And yet, most of us do nothing to change this. Yet we all proclaim to serve the same mighty God.

On July 13, I took my "Before" pictures for the "Before and After Pictures". This is actually a journey I started way b...

Here are the latest two entries from the Lane family: Posted Oct 5, 2009 3:03pm Great work, Claire!!! The techs have taken her off of the EE...

Many of you have been asking about Claire Lane, the little girl who suffered a heart attack, along with Pneumonia, and has been in the hospi...

About 4 years ago, when I was living in Memphis, Kristen and I went to see a Third Day concert. My good friend Jason Bybee and his wife Sun...

Many of you have asked about an update on Claire Lane, the little girl who is in the hospital from Pneumonia. The outpouring of support for...

Oftentimes, we find ourselves asked to pray for someone we've never met. That happened to me today, and this one particularly touched m...

I think this may be my new theme song. This is off of the new David Crowder Band album "Church Music". We don't talk about g...

Last night, Life groups began meeting again for the school year at the West University Church of Christ. Our Life Group consisted of 8 adul...

It has been 8 years. I was about to step into my third period class during the first year out of college in my teaching career. The sixth g...

I'm so wasteful. Then again, most American's tend to be rather wasteful. My problem with waste often seems to relate to buying food...

Okay, so I caved into peer pressure and joined Twitter. Okay, really no one pressured me into joining. I was curious. For now, I don'...

Ever since I was born, I have had an older sister. I know, it sounds silly doesn't it? Of course if my sister was already alive, then I...

What comes to your mind when you think of the word holy? Seriously: Most of us probably think of things such as robes, chants, long prayer...

Have you ever awakened in the morning and gone through your morning routine and suddenly asked yourself, “Where is my life headed?” Does it ...

Reuters By James Hibberd James Hibberd – Sun Jul 26, 9:25 pm ET SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) – The characters Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitc...

I have always loved reading all the old Peanuts cartoon strips in the paper. There is a simple humor about the characters that Charles Shul...

When I was a kid, my Grandfather and Grandmother Smith were some of the biggest Lipscomb University Basketball fans ever. They, along with ...