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Nathan Hyde is the pastor of CrossWay Church in Ocean City, Maryland. In Surfing the Inner N8, he shares his reflections on all kinds of topics, offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into what's happening at CrossWay, and provides links to his favorite site

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• My Summer Preaching Cave

  Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 04:05 in church stuff, preaching, stuff in my head, what's happening in my life

  This summer I’m trying a big experiment that I’m really praying will work.  Here’s the deal: I have set a summertime goal of writing preaching outlines for all my sermons up through...

• CrossWay Church Sermon Podcast Scores Mennonite Mention

  Posted on Friday June 6th, 2008 at 04:32 in church stuff, links to check out, preaching

  Last night I was reading the latest issue of The Mennonite, which is the national publication for our denomination. The table of contents mentioned an article called “Sermons Heard ‘Round...

• Summer 2008

  Posted on Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 04:47 in church stuff, pictures, preaching, small group, sports stuff, stuff in my head, what's happening in my life

  This summer is shaping up to be a very exciting one!  Our plans for the summer include exactly three things: (1) Work hard. (2) Play hard. (3) Rest hard. Work hard: Okay, so Carolyn’s not plann...

• Weekend Stuff

  Posted on Monday April 7th, 2008 at 08:54 in church stuff, preaching, sermon discussion, stuff in my head, what's happening in my life

  Stuff from the weekend: On Friday and Saturday I took a class in the Lancaster, PA area.  The course is called Anabaptist Leadership, Polity, and Effectiveness.  I’m still not sure exactly wh...

• Easter Weekend Review

  Posted on Monday March 24th, 2008 at 10:38 in church stuff, preaching

  (Warning to reader: I haven’t blogged much these past few days, but I’m more than making up for it today!) Work hard.  Play hard.  That’s the way to live, and that’s how it&#...

• Preaching: Greatness or Effectiveness?

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 10:38 in preaching

  One of the best preaching blogs on the Internet is “Biblical Preaching.”  I don’t know how they come up with such rich and helpful material every day!  Today Peter Mead writes on t...

• Update on the “Creed” Series

  Posted on Thursday January 24th, 2008 at 08:57 in church stuff, preaching, sermon discussion

  Last fall at CrossWay we began a major series called “Creed.”  The goal of this series is to explore up close each of the 24 topics in the Mennonite Confession of Faith.  To avoid having...

• Loving God, Loving People

  Posted on Wednesday January 23rd, 2008 at 03:52 in bible thoughts, church stuff, preaching

  On Sunday at CrossWay Church we continued the series “The Promised Land” by looking at our strategy for accomplishing our church’s mission.  A brief recap to set the context: the pu...

• Another Preaching Learning Experience

  Posted on Tuesday January 15th, 2008 at 14:38 in church stuff, preaching

  It seems I’m constantly finding out not only how much I don’t know, but how little I knew there was so much I didn’t know. Make sense?  Welcome to my world. Yesterday when I prepare...

• Preaching Mistake #397

  Posted on Saturday December 22nd, 2007 at 04:02 in church stuff, preaching

  Tomorrow will be my sixteenth straight Sunday preaching.  This will be the first and hopefully last time I’m doing this.  Trust me, there’s nothing heroic about going four months straigh...

• Sermonizing for January ‘08

  Posted on Thursday December 13th, 2007 at 04:26 in church stuff, preaching

  The cold that’s going around finally caught up with me yesterday, so I spent most of the day working at home.  At least it gave me a chance to catch up with some planning. I’ve been spend...

• Preaching That Makes You Wanna Dance

  Posted on Saturday October 13th, 2007 at 06:45 in preaching

  Our Australian friend Tom has put together a pretty cool little audio clip you can listen to here.  Be sure to check out his blog at http://runnoft.blogspot.com/ That’d be pretty cool to have m...