The new iPhone comes out on July 11. My birthday is July 11. Just thought you should know.
(Ok, so actually, I’m stuck in a contract with Verizon right now, so there will be no new iPhoning until at least November… 
I was listening to one of the Catalyst podcasts while working out this morning and heard a brief interview with relationship guru Les Parrott, who writes books with his wife Leslie (I love it when marriages give people “cute” name combos). He mentioned a quick assessment that will tell how you handle time. It basically [...]
A few things around the web that caught my attention …
+ TIME Magazine writes about the spread of the house church movement.
+ churchrelevance.com summarizes a podcast with Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission. This guy’s involved in some powerful stuff. From the summary: “We can point [hurting people] to God through the way we live [...]
In my last post, I said about 30 days. It’s been 36, so I’m not that far off.
But, I’m back! It’s amazing how time away from something can help you refocus.
So here’s the deal. I was actually planning to come back with an announcement of changes to this blog. They haven’t happened yet. [...]
… or if you want to get really spiritual, we’ll call it a Sabbath.
Starting today, I’m going to take about 30 days off from blogging (and probably reading blogs). There’s no one reason. It’s just a healthy thing to do every once in a while.
So, just when things were starting to pick up around here, [...]
David Wilson tells a great story about knowledge of verses real allegiance to, passion for, and love of God.
I’m glad Craig at lifechurch.tv said this. It’s something I was thinking, but he’s actually on these lists, so he has the credibility to say it.
Christianity Today recently posted an interview with Bob Roberts, pastor of NorthWood Church. It’s worth reading.
NorthWood is the church Grete and I were a part of before moving out to California. I worked with their global impact team. In a “church world” where there’s a lot of talk about different worship styles and what ways [...]
If you’ve been known to hit the snooze button one too many times in the morning, this is for you. Clocky is an alarm clock that, once the snooze button is hit, dives off your night stand and runs away. The next time the alarm goes off, you have to get out of bed and [...]
“I can’t help but wonder which came first: the impulse to sanitize and tame Jesus by encasing him in abstract theology, thereby removing our motivation for discipleship, or our natural repulsion toward discipleship that forces us to domesticate Jesus to let us off the hook. Either way, when Jesus is just true light from true [...]
In honor of today, here’s Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech …
And here’s an idea for churches (and anyone) from Church Marketing Sucks. Why not plan some time to serve your community or nearby areas on the day many people have off?
The concept “it’s not a day off, it’s a day on” [...]
Life has been totally crazy recently, but I had a blast last night with our small group helping out with Glenkirk’s homeless ministry. Each winter during the coldest months of the year, a group of churches in the area shares responsibility for housing, feeding and providing clothing for people who don’t have those resources. Last [...]
I received a copy of The Blogging Church in the mail yesterday because of this. My first thought when I heard about the book was “I’m 25. I work in church. I have a blog. I have a blog for the church. I even read the blogs of pastors and others. Will this give me [...]
So everyone’s talking about the iPhone that Apple CEO Steve Jobs previewed this week. It’s an amazing product. But what really strikes me is how much creativity and innovation went into it. In one product, Apple has not only redefined the cell phone, but also the digital music/media player and portable internet. They didn’t skimp [...]
Read the following quote, and take a quick guess as to when it was spoken:
“Evangelicals have lost sight of the fact that the great issues being debated today are no longer those pertaining to organic evolution. Now they are pertaining to social revolution.
We can no longer afford the supposed luxury of social withdrawal, but must [...]
- I’m really blessed to be doing things I love - from school, to work, to everything. Even when it’s stressful, it’s important to keep that perspective.
- Marriage has changed my cleaning standards. What I call a surface house cleaning now would have been called a deep cleaning before marriage. What I call a deep [...]
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