tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77152822011-07-08T05:29:33.889-07:00The ravings of a bald-headed friend of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus.Bill Sergotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758408764254902927noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715282.post-34200094637569392202008-09-17T21:01:00.001-07:002010-03-12T20:12:44.531-08:00

We recently attended my wife's father's funeral. We had to travel down to "Little Havana" in Miami. It was a strange event.We didn't get to the hotel room until 4:30am on the day of the funeral. Our flight was delayed out of O'Hare (surprise, surprise), and then we ended up in line for the rental car behind approximately 25 Cubans at 2:30am. At that hour, there were only two rental agents,

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To see the news video referenced in this post, click here: News VideoI saw a news video the other day on ABC.com. An elderly African-American man was crossing a street in Hartford, Connecticut and a car swerved into the left lane to pass another car and hit the man, tossing him like a rag doll. He landed in the middle of the road and lay there. All of this was caught on a traffic camera a

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The Patriots lost! The cheating, lying, scum of the earth, stain on the face of football Patriots will forever forward be the team that stole an undefeated season only to lose the Super Bowl!! There is, without a doubt, a God in heaven, and all is right with the world tonight. I will slumber in the peace and knowledge of sweet justice served.

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This is just too funny. Enjoy!Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish For Unlimited Wishes

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Quite possibly my favorite cartoon ever. It's from 1932. Enjoy!

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This evening I wasn't feeling very good, but I was moving slowly around the kitchen getting dinner ready for the kids and warming some leftover soup for Teresa and me. My wife runs a very tight ship around here, so I am not permitted rest or sick days. She demands dinner on the table within 30 minutes of her arrival from work, and I'd best mind my P's and Q's and get it done. No one who knows

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I have been thinking a lot lately about the Kingdom of God and how difficult it can be to live in that tension. People simply don't like it. To have a Kingdom church means to have a somewhat unpopular church, because such a church lives and desires to continue to live in constant tension. It just isn't safe.There is such a tendency in our faith lives to want immediately out of tension.

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Teresa and I were ordained this past weekend during the regular Sunday gathering. Pat and Lisa Mulcahy came up from the Cedarburg Vineyard to ordain us. They were our sending pastors, and we were with them for their early years of growth as a church plant. It was so awesome to have them here, and the morning was very powerful for us. It was so good to see Pat and Lisa again, and to have them

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I have been really bothered lately by all of the cheating that takes place in professional sports. Brian Belichick of the New England Patriots was fined $500,000 for filming signals of opposing coaches. One of NE's photographers had been kicked out of Lambeau during a game against Green Bay in the past. At that time, Green Bay personnel accused Belichick of illegally filming signals of our

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I have decided to throw my hat in the ring for candidacy for the office of President of the United States for the 2008 election. My slogan will be: "Vote for Sergott: At Least He's Not an Idiot". Levi, I have decided that you will be my secretary of defense. You get to bomb people and stuff. Cool, huh? Paul, you are heading up my committee on Global Warming, an issue near and dear to your

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My son, Eli, is a stud. His prowess among 6 year-olds borders on legendary. He has a quick smile and good looks that work as a deadly combination to cause even the coldest of women to swoon in light-headed bliss. I have taken him to wedding receptions many times, some of them were weddings over which I presided. While at the reception, adult men have experienced gut-wrenching jealousy while

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I am the king of my castle. This is not to say that I rule over my wife and children. On the contrary, my wife probably has much more power than I do. I am a king in the ceremonial monarch sense of the word, where I don’t accomplish much, and I wander around like I own the place – scratching my belly, belching, and engaging in various levels of slothfulness. I am actually quite a sight to

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A couple days ago, I went to Wal-mart. I have a love-hate relationship with Wal-mart. There are times that I need horseradish, new underwear, and a car battery all at the same time (but not necessarily for the same project), and Wal-mart is the only place that can make that happen for me. Conversely, I cannot stand the lines, the chaos, the worthless junk, and all of the other pains of the

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Ahh, to be rich. It is something I have always thought about. It has actually filled my thoughts on quite a few occasions. I cannot seem to shake the feeling that I want more. I am a person who prides myself on the fact that I live simply and care about the poor. My entire existence has been about helping those in need. The interesting conflict I face is one of wanting to help the poor

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I'm kinda tired. I have really struggled lately with work. It has been very difficult for me, because of the experience I had last week. I had the opportunity to go to Lithuania. I went with a few other pastors and leaders in the Vineyard, and I absolutely loved the trip. It was so good to connect with such beautiful people and to see so much of God's glory. I got to minister to many people and

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It is day two of my 40 day fast from any solid food. It has been interesting already, because I am getting in touch with some of my food issues. I have not been hungry at all, but it has only been about 30 hours or so since I last ate. Right now my body is in such disrepair, that I could live off my own body fat for 48.37 years. Hunger is not the point, though. I am already realizing how much

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So ya thought ya might like to go to the show. To feel the warm thrill of confusion; that space cadet glow. Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine? Is this not what you expected to see? If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes, you'll just have to claw your way through this disguise.

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I am not a fan of films that have Christian followings. This one looks a bit different, however. We are on a mailing list for Worshiptogether.com. They sent us a trailer for the upcoming film, "Amazing Grace". It is the story behind the most famous and the most powerful song in all of history. They had Chris Tomlin, an excellent worship leader and writer, help with the soundtrack and even add an

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I work for a social service organization outside of my duties as the lead pastor of Adullam. I have worked in a number of social service situations in the past, and I have learned that all of them have one thing in common: DRAMA.There has been all this chaos at work, and I have suddenly ended up in the middle of it all. I wrote a report about my department, summarizing a meeting we had, at the

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"Jesusland" by Ben Foldsfrom the CD - Songs For SilvermanTake a walkout the gate you go and never stoppast dollar stores and wig shopsquarter in a cup for every quaffand watch the buildings growsmaller as you goDown the tracksbeautiful McMansions on a hillthat overlook a highwayThere's riverboat casinos and you stillhave yet to see a soulJesuslandJesuslandTown to townbroadcast to each house, they

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The blogging has been really intense lately. I am seeing a need to make it even more so. Something that has been on my mind and heart lately is the dunkability of the average cookie. This is the result, for me, of a great deal of Research and Development resources. The following is my list of the top 5 best cookies for dunking in a tall, cold glass of milk:#5 - Girl Scout "Thanks-a-Lot"

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I am such a dumbass. I spend all of this time trying to help people and even counseling people in their marriages. Then, I fall on my face with my wife Teresa, treating her horribly. She was feeling a lot of stuff because of the holidays, because of a great deal of dysfunction and pain from this time of year in her childhood. She was acting out of that, and was complaining. I was tired and

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Well, tomorrow's my birthday. I am finally turning 21. Okay, I'm a little older than that. Teresa and I went out with Greg and Lora, my mom, and our kids for pizza. It is a tradition for my birthday to go to this one place for pizza every year. I love the place.I'm getting tired of it all, however. I have done many of the same traditions for many years with my birthday and Christmas, and they are

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I have really enjoyed church lately. It wasn't always that way. As a matter of fact, there was a time where I was driving home every Sunday in tears, cussing under my breath because of how much I hated church. I was still the pastor then, too! It wasn't the people, but it was the culture of the church. It felt so corporate and contrived. Everything seemed to feel like a play. We were play-acting

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Lora, I don't know what to say.

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I am sick to death of the vernacular of my culture. By my culture, I mean those of us who are out on the front lines trying to do church as well as all of those who want to be a part of my culture, those who are thinking about my culture, those who are conversing about my culture, and even those who are rejecting my culture. There is an entire lexicon of new language and terms that have risen up

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I was having a hard day today. First of all, I screwed up royally at work. I turned my phone off while I was having lunch with my wife at the hospital. (Don't go praying for my wife for some illness. She works at a hospital as a chaplain. If you are going to pray for her for anything, pray that she will be able to survive marriage to me.) I turned it off, because you are not supposed to use cell

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Ted Haggard, now former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, or as I am fond of calling them, "NAkEd", was outed by a man claiming to have had a number of drug-filled, sexual encounters with Haggard. Haggard is an outspoken radical conservative moralist who has condemned some people as hell-bound sinners, especially homosexuals. C'mon! Can you look at the man's hair and fake tan

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I got sucked in yesterday. I couldn’t help it. My wife, her friends, and all of our male, homosexual friends have been addicted to this American phenomenon for a long time. I, for my part, have avoided it like the plague. The “crack cocaine” of mid-afternoon television to which I refer is none other than Oprah. Most of the time I find her show to be nothing but nonsensical, emotional drivel

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OK, so I went to the Christian book store (the white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant, evangelical, upper-middle class, republican, family values propaganda store) in the area, and I was hit immediately by the overwhelming amount of Narnia crap that absolutely filled the place. Disney has marketed this film to Christians in a way that only the Disney advertising juggernaut can, and I find it all hard to

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I am experiencing some angst. Of course, as a quintessential Gen X’er, it is quite expected that I would carry angst. However, what I am experiencing is not quite a “Pearl-Jam-raging-against-Ticketmaster-because-Eddie-Vedder-could- only-be-angry-at-his-parents-for-so-long-before-losing-momentum- and-needing-a-new-object-of-wrath” kind of angst. Rather it is a frustration and disappointment

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A dear friend responded to my last post with a fairly direct criticism. I have absolutely no problem with friends challenging me. I love having people speak into my life. However, what hurt about this comment is the fact that it is completely untrue. It did point out a glaring problem in my life that needs addressing, however. Those I love obviously don't know why I left the Catholic Church to

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My wife made a comment today that I found to be pretty profound. She said, "We in the United States are as obese spiritually as we are physically." The comment brought me up short. I was blown away by the truth and the implications of the statement.I have heard Christians in churches say so many times that they did not want to be in a church anymore, because they simply were not being fed. NOT

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"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates." - Stella Terrill Mann ... FOUND AT "THE QUOTATIONS PAGE"What are God's dreams for the Church? He seemed to think this whole thing was worth the trouble. In fact, I would argue that the establishment of His Kingdom through the Church was the specific mission He came to accomplish on earth. When the

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This blog site is a place to talk frankly about church. I want to look at church from the perspective of what it should look like, if and why it is important, and where we should go with it in the future. It is also based in the experience of people, believers and non-believers alike. We are all hardwired to try to find God. So, how can we do that? Churches have become the place least likely

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