Category: Life
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Book time
I’m preaching tomorrow for class, which means some time in the library finishing up some reading so I can finish writing the sermon! Preaching to people who want to be preachers…now that’s an interesting experience!
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Rest well
Who says resolutions are just for new years? I have a new one. I came to it roughly two minutes ago. Here it is: Rest well. (Yeah, it’s the title of this post. Anticlimactic? Maybe…) Here’s the deal. Life is busy. For me, it’s busier than it really should be, but there’s not much I…
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Yeah, we’re famous.
Continuing our “do everything you can in LA while you have the chance” trend, Grete and I again went to the SAG awards as seat fillers. I’m sure Grete will be blogging more about it if you’re interested. For now, here’s a little video from before and after the event… (We haven’t seen it on…
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Flashback Friday: Life starts now
So I’ve been blogging here for more than two years. Sometimes I’ve even written a thing or two worth reading (maybe…possibly?). So instead of repeating myself, each Friday I’m going to pull something from the archives you may have missed. We’re starting with a goodie from December 2006… —– File this under the “that’ll preach”…
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Reliving the 90s and hearing from Jesus
>> While cleaning and working on things tonight, Grete and I also relived a glorious decade with iTunes Essentials: 90s One-Hit Wonders >> At church today, saw these crazy things in the Children’s Ministry department. Don’t know about you, but I never knew Jesus was a 35-year-old buff white guy who quotes himself. There’s also…
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Back in the saddle
Grete and I got back in town on New Year’s Eve just in time to watch the ball drop and go to bed. It’s hard to celebrate New Years on the West coast when you’re still on East coast time! Since we were in town this year, we also walked about three blocks from our…
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Overheard on Flight 1865
Flight Attendant (over the speakers as we taxi to our gate yesterday): Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened. Pause. Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened. Pause. Lady in row seven – please remain seated with your seat belt fastened! — You gotta love the direct address via intercom! (After a number…
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Deep thoughts going elsewhere
So posting has been, and will continue to be, nonexistant for a while here. I have a lot I’d like to share but no real time or energy to focus on the web-world. Too much happening in the real world! Here’s a sampling of what’s happening in Jon’s life: Preaching this Saturday night Conducting interviews…
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Accountability
Keeping accountable to others can be the difference between finishing well and failing miserably. But most of the time, it isn’t done in a way that provides much more than a slap on the wrist and a guilt trip. Usually there’s a list of questions regarding different sins you could have committed that week. Did…
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I love LA
It’s a crazy place. You just never know who you’re going to run into. I posted an ad on Craigslist selling a keyboard stand. The guy shows up, we start talking. Turns out, he plays keyboard for Iron Maiden. So my old equipment just may be going on a world tour sometime soon…
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Filling the pantry with couscous and pasta sauce
Wild Oats, a small grocery chain that was recently bought out by Whole Foods, was having a 50% off the entire store sale today, so Grete and I ventured on over and stocked up on some great “this is healthy and good but normally too expensive for us to buy” food. It’s a crazy atmosphere…
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“Hey! Move it!”
I never carved pumpkins before marrying Grete. Now, this is my third year to dig in. Look at the corrupting influence she’s been on my life :).
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Christmas. Already?
Well, sort of. Grete’s side of the family is an on-the-ball bunch. They do a gift exchange each year and are already asking for gift ideas. What you see above isn’t one of them (I WISH I could get one of these for $25!), but it got me thinking about the inevitable “what I want…
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Grete’s blogging!
I know she already was. But my lovely wife took about a tw0-month break with no posts what-so-ever. To make up for it, she’s committed to post something every day this week. And let me tell you, the blog world is already buzzing. Here’s one of the comments from her post: “The “void” in my…
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Life starts now
I recently dropped a class. The reason? I was headed toward major overload. Between work at church, work as a community coordinator, five different classes, time with friends and family, and time to do things like eat and shower, it just wasn’t all going to fit. For the first time in a long time I…
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