Deep Thoughts

Deep Thought: If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don’t let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he’ll thank you.
I am pretty sure that [...]

Deep Thought: I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn’t say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to [...]

Deep Thought: Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words - “mank” and “ind.” What do these words mean? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.
Another mystery to me is how people just quote statistics without any [...]

Deep Thought: During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were “just going down to the corner.”
You could get hurt because you weren’t prepared. Well, yesterday I said that as we finish up this series of posts on why we design our worship services [...]

Deep Thought: Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that’s like a regular window.
A lot of good ideas, like trap windows, just never pan out, do they? The good idea that we have been talking [...]

Deep Thought: What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? And after you’re real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lay down to sleep.
Not me, [...]

Deep Thought: Whenever you read a good book, it’s like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books.
I do however like to read good blogs, which is why I don’t read this one. However if you are still reading this one, [...]

Deep Thought: I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you’re having a good idea but it’s just eggs hatching.
Some 4 years ago, we had an idea hatch about starting a church that would cater to the churched as well [...]

Deep Thought: I can picture in my mind a world without war and a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
One thing that you would never expect is for me to post a blog. So I thought I would catch you totally off guard and [...]

Deep Thought: You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he’s real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.
It is a sad time for Shoreline this week. One of the founding families of the Shoreline Church and part of the original launch team is moving. [...]