sunday night after church

1. it’s actually not sunday night yet. it’s only sunday afternoon. but where i normally have a bunch of stuff to do every sunday, i don’t have anything scheduled for this evening, so i can relax now. nice.
2. left-over turkey sandwiches for lunch. seriously, i might like left-overs better than the [...]

thanks

at the leadnow conference a couple of weeks ago, donald miller, author of blue like jazz, spoke about the elements of “story.” it was like drinking from a fire hose, but what a refreshing drink.
he said that a while ago he went to a workshop in los angeles taught by some big [...]

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it’s been a while. but i feel like we’re only going to have a short amount of time to have fun with him, so we should celebrate the good times. for instance:
“Every morning I wake up. And when I wake up I go to the Oval Office.”
George W. Bush
January 5, 2001
Town Hall Meeting [...]

fear of failure

i just listened to a message called “fear of failure” preached by craig groeschel online. about halfway in, he told this story:

there was an art professor who did a similar teaching activity with every new pottery class he had. he would break up the class into two groups. one group he would [...]

monday morning after sunday

1. great service yesterday morning. scott peterson, the new chaplain at my alma mater, was our guest speaker, and i think he knocked it out of the park. if i didn’t know better, i would have thought that pastor riley had told him exactly what to say for the sitch we’re in right [...]

quotable

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
– Lily Tomlin
leader of the pack

compassion

about six years ago, i went to a michael w. smith concert on the “songs for worship” tour. they had a table for compassion international child sponsorship, and dubya (the singer, not the president ) made a big push from the stage for people to give up less than a dollar a [...]

curiosity and snopes killed the cat

thanks angela for looking up this worthless piece of information, to further devalue and discredit an already worthless piece of what we now know is simply propagandized, photoshop-doctored photography…
scroll down to my previous post to view the photo in question.
here are the two originals:

i suppose snopes would say that there’s no santa [...]

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just like me

this is one of my favorite pictures i’ve taken recently.
she won’t barely sit still for more than a few seconds, normally. she wants to run around and throw stuff on the ground. she wants me to read a book to her, but about halfway through it she thinks i should be done and [...]