This year, Pin Oaks is partnering with the Collin County Adventure Camp to do our annual Easter Egg Hunt. It will be held on April 23 between 1PM and 4PM at the Collin County Adventure Camp, which is east of Anna on FM 2862. Use the map below or...
Read moreHindsight is 20/20 (Ephesians 2:11)
Every year as our anniversary approaches, I think back to life before I was married and smile. It was probably not remarkably different from most single guys: I lived on cereal, ramen and coffee. Everything I wore to work always matched, because...
Read moreBuilding Something That Will Last (Ephesians 2:10)
Notre Dame de Paris, one of the first of the truly massive Gothic cathedrals, is “point zero” on the Paris map – the point from which all distances are calculated. To build such a huge building in the Middle Ages took literally generations...
Read moreSignificant Scars (Ephesians 2:10)
Like most boys in the 17th century, little 14 year old Antonio was sent off as an apprentice. After 10 years of work, he was finally able to sell his his wooden creations himself, and from then until his death in 1737, he made violins. You may...
Read moreGod's Image: Spiritual Foreign Policy (Ephesians 2:10)
Bill Cosby has some classic comedy bits, but the ones about parenting have taken on new meaning for me since my girls were born. My favorite line of all is this one: My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at...
Read moreThere's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch (Ephesians 2:8-9)
My wife took a photography class a few years ago from a guy who had been in the business for years. He’d done fashion shows in New York, done shoots of movie stars and singers, and had just gotten hired to shoot some of the incredible...
Read moreSaved for a Purpose (Ephesians 2:8-10)
On February 22, 1980, a bunch of college kids from Boston and Minnesota pulled off what many still think is the greatest upset in all of sports by beating the Soviet hockey machine. The Soviets had won gold medals in every Olympics since 1964...
Read moreHelpless to Save Ourselves (Ephesians 2:1-4)
In the Roman Empire, gladiators were the rock stars, the professional athletes. The really good ones were celebrities much like the ones in America today: just as likely to wow a crowd by making their well-trained bodies do things that seem to...
Read moreBut God… (Ephesians 2:1-5)
In the epic blockbuster Titanic, there’s an especially tragic scene near the end of the film. After the giant cruise ship has sunk in the frigid North Atlantic, a lone lifeboat returns, floating through a sea of frozen bodies, calling out, hoping...
Read moreSpecial Meeting:
A special called business meeting has been scheduled for March 6th immediately following the 10:30 service. please join us as we discuss the future of our church and a new direction! God’s greatness is being put on display through this...
Read moreFullness and Unity (Ephesians 1:23)
One of my wife’s favorite movies is The Cutting Edge. It’s about figure skating, sure, but the guy in it is a former hockey player, so I can still get away with watching it without totally surrendering my man card. It’s a “romantic comedy” and...
Read moreEye-Hand Coordination (Ephesians 1:22-23)
A normal Major League fastball comes in at around 90 mph. That’s fast. At that speed, it takes less than half a second to reach the batter, and if it’s a breaking ball, half the “break” will come in the last .10 seconds before it gets to the...
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