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- Take me home
There is no glamor in business travel. I would never want anyone to think that I don’t genuinely love my job or meeting so many cool people, because I totally do. And I am always fully aware that a ton of people would die to do what I do every day… God continues to grant [...]
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Thoughts?
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- Car Salesmen Etiquette
Rule #1 As soon as a customer parks, start trotting towards him. Hopefully, it will scare him to death. The first salesmen to shake his hand wins! And if the customer is scared… good job!
Rule #2 Ask your marks name. Then hand him a business card and promptly forget his name. He’s just a mark [...]
- The Gospel is Social
As I mentioned in my post last night, my head is spinning a little as I think about today’s evangelical church.
And yet I know that simply by saying that the evangelical church should stop doing church the way they currently that some people will instantly categorize my thought as “social gospel” in order to ignore [...]
- Head spinning night
I just want to pause right here, recognizing that my night may not be over. See if you see the thread of God doing something.
#1. At community group we got really stirred talking about us, not our church, being a people of mercy and justice. (See 1 Samuel 2) One person from our group mentioned [...]
- What if you’re asking the wrong question?
With some of my friends I’ve had the same soul conversation 100 times. Together we bang our heads against the wall asking the big question we are facing. With various friends that soul question takes various forms. “Why aren’t my kids following Jesus? Why isn’t my business taking off? Why do I struggle with my [...]
- Weekend in Vegas
This weekend we’ve been hanging out with my mom. She lives about 1 mile off the strip in Las Vegas.
Saturday morning, we went to our first ever dog show. It was a small one at a local park. Besides being a bit warm (reminder of the last half of Revelation, right there.) We had a [...]
- Lies of Youth Ministry, part 2
The second lie of youth ministry is that it is all about discipleship. This is a lie which starts with bad hermeneutics, continues with training built around selective theology, and is encouraged by inward looking church leaders.
Here’s how this lie plays out. Most youth ministers are wholly focused on building the size of their program. [...]
- DIY Antimetabole
Tonight on NPR’s On the Media there was a segment that talked about the hot trend in politics to use antimetabole. For those who need a refresher from 11th grade english literature class.
antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order (ex: “I know what I like, and I like [...]
- Dedicated to English Language Learners
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