My life Since 2003
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Amazon Tap Review
A couple months back I was looking for a nice Bluetooth speaker for my office. Specifically, something that was better sound than my Macbook speakers and better than the built-in speakers on the TV mounted on the wall. I wanted it to be small, have good sound, and connect to anything. After some digging around…
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Youth Ministry as an Advocate for Vulnerable Children
Perfect. No really, perfect. With my sarcasm volume cranked up to 100% I say it again, “We had the perfect ending to a perfect school year.” How perfect was this school year? It was so perfect that we’re planning a bonfire at the beach this weekend where we will burn everything. And I mean that literally.…
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Emma Dryer is Smiling
About 3 years ago I wrote a blog post that was widely read entitled, “Moody, You Are Worth the Fight.” In this post I addressed Moody’s demarkation from their historic posture on women in ministry. While the school bears the name of 19th century evangelist D.L. Moody, the Institute was the brain child of a…
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Small Ball
In the sport of baseball, small ball is an informal term for an offensive strategy in which the batting team emphasizes placing runners on base and then advancing them into scoring position for a run in a deliberate, methodical way. This strategy places a high value on individual runs and attempts to score them without requiring extra base hits, or sometimes without base hits at…
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Reliance
Two things will make you act drunk, blind, and stupid. Love. And fear. Sure, there are real things to fear in life. Instinctive fear in response to danger is completely normal. You hear gunshots and you instantly ducks down and wonder, “Is someone shooting at me or is it New Years Eve and I didn’t…
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The Right Guy for the Job
“Daddy said I was the right guy for the job.” ~ Jackson, 5 If we ever buy another house I’m going replace all of the fixtures on the first day. Light fixtures, faucets, shut off valves, and every piece of the sprinkler system not underground. Why? It’d save time versus the way I’ve been doing…
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Amazon Prime Now Review
Grocery shopping is a waste of time. The stores are designed to get you to walk up and down all the aisles, hoping you’ll wander by something they’ll tempt it’s way into your shopping cart on the way to find the bread, milk, and eggs you came for. That’s the basic premise of Amazon Prime…
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Do people really care about online privacy?
There’s an interesting lawsuit against Facebook snaking it’s way through the legal system. Here’s the gist of the complaint: The lawsuit alleges that Facebook’s photo-tagging system violated user privacy by creating faceprints — geometric representations of a person’s face — without explicit consent. Those faceprints are typically used to identify users to suggest tags for uploaded photos.…
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Long-term Missions
https://www.instagram.com/p/BE1UZrJsjqe/ Last weekend Kristen and I volunteered to help with a clean-up project in our neighborhood. I should clarify… Kristen volunteered and I tagged along. As we were raking and hauling load after load of sticks, rotting organic matter, homeless paraphernalia, and pine needles to a 10 yard bin to be hauled away I got…
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Intentionally Disconnected
Here are two competing, intertwined questions rolling around the free spaces of my life lately like a driverless steamroller. Success, Pursuit or Arrival: Which Satisfies? Question One: What does a successful life look like? A few years ago a friend said to me, “You live at a rare intersection where you love what you do, you’re good…