San Diego State
Friday night on ESPN… this was the second national TV game for the Aztecs, and an opportunity for the country to see us play against more realistic opponent in Nevada.
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Validation, Vindication, and Whatever
Validation
I wish validation were as simple a thing as getting your parking validated at the restaurant after dinner.
Validation is like helium. It’s a blast when you inhale it. And it’s present in the atmosphere all the time. But capturing it? Nearly impossible.
There’s something gnarly in us that seeks validation. A desire to see yourself as legit comes from a dark, insecure place. Seeking validation is lonely. It’s unnatural and unhealthy.
And although it’s an unhealthy place of loneliness it’s the corner pub, full of lonely and unhealthy people on a Friday night ignoring reality while seeking a fix.
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Where in the world is Adam?
Saturday begins an 8 week sprint to Thanksgiving. Between now and then I’ll be away from home roughly 50% of the time, generally gone Thursday-Sunday.It’s a time of year my partner in crime is affectionately calling the insanity.
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Your Church Website Sucks (And 5 Ways to Improve It)
Over the past few weeks I’ve visited well over 1,000 individual, local church websites.Let me tell you: There’s a lot of truly crappy church websites out there.
Next to word of mouth recommendations from the people in your church, your church website is the most important connection tool you have.
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College Football Thoughts – Week 5
Yesterday was my last Saturday before about 2 straight months of travel. So I did what any good college football fan would do… watched 9 hours of ball.
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We Can All Overcoming Our Fears
Even a great, big, hard-hitting NFL player has legitimate fears to overcome in life.
I don’t know what your fears are. But I know that when I discover one I want to work through it and overcome it. Sometimes I can do it myself. And sometimes I need the help of others. But the point is that I don’t want to live a life defined by fear. Rather, I want to live boldly into the calling God has given me.
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-7
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 10:10
h/t Buzzfeed
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The “No Drop-Off” Thing
Sometimes I hear about a thing. And the thing is attached to such a good sound byte that it sticks. And then that thing kind of takes a life of its own before you’ve really thought about it much.
And that’s what I think happened with the “no drop-off” thing that’s found favor in family ministry circles. (The best I can tell it started as part of the kids ministry at Northpoint and gained steam via Reggie Joiner’s book, Think Orange. But it’s also taken on a life of it’s own, you see it expressed in a lot of ways in churches who “do the Orange thing” in their churches.)
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Seven iOS 7 Hacks for Parents
According to the Washington Post, Apple sold 9 million iPhone devices over the weekend. We even jumped in on the fun by getting Megan (12) her very first phone.
Last week, Apple introduced iOS 7, a brand new operating system for every iPhone, iPad, and some iPods. Meanwhile, also last week Blackberry fired half it’s worldwide employees and Microsoft finally admitted that they didn’t take mobile seriously early enough.
Despite it taking nearly 2 days to update my iPhone 5 I really like iOS 7.
I won’t bore you with what I like about it but I will point out some features that I think will really help your life as a parent.
Seven iOS 7 Hacks for Parents
Here’s how I make my iPhone work for me instead of the other way around!
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College Football Thoughts – Week 4
32,000 in attendance for SDSU versus Oregon State We’re 4 weeks into the season and this is my first post about college football. I guess that shows the priority I’ve been giving college football?
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How to Buy A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Social Media
I just noticed that I was quoted in Winston Ross’s article about Snapchap at The Daily Best.Here’s a link to my article called, Why You Should Delete Snapchat. Now read more than 400,000 times and shared on Facebook 40,000+ times.
If you’d like to buy the book I co-authored with Mark Oestriecher, A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Social Media you can get it here:
- Amazon (physical copy)
- Amazon (kindle)
- Bulk sales at my company site