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Get a little culture
Wanna feel a little more intelligent in your spare time? I just found a new website through lifehacker. Daily Lit will email you daily with small pieces of classic novels that are now part of the public domain. Every day (or weekday if you choose) you’ll receive a small chunk of the story. Over time,…
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Lessons learned, part II
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I love hearing the lessons people learn from life. And, since I’m interested in church planting, lessons learned from people going through that journey stick out to me. A couple of guys I follow in the blog world recently posted what they’ve learned after a few…
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Eat this book?
From Wandering Home: “I just got finished reading Eugene Peterson’s, ‘Eat this Book.’ It was an interesting read. Peterson’s book is essentially an attempt to recapture Christians’ love of the Bible. One particular point that I appreciated was Peterson’s discussion of what he calls ‘upward sacrilege.’ Essentially, Peterson is arguing that when we make Scripture…
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Lessons learned
I love it when people share what they’ve been learning through journeying in a relationship with God. It just shows we have a personal God who teaches us, grows us and shapes us as we obey and learn. Here’s the list of things Brett said he’s learned over the past year. They’re all good, but…
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A big God (a riff on riff)
My brother is an artist. If I want, I can take a piece he created and analyze it based on a set of rules. I can take his whole body of work and see how certain pieces are consistent with each other. I can take those observations and make conclusions about what he was trying…
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Did you hear?
Here’s a newsflash. How people communicate and who people trust is changing! (Amazing, eh?) But here’s the thing. It looks like larger industries are finally taking notice. According to this article on word of mouth and marketing from the Los Angeles Times, studios used to be able to count on two good weekends based on…
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Movements and trends
From Bob Roberts, Jr.: “We use the word movements a lot in the US. I’m convinced it’s just trends. Movements overtake a whole community, society, etc. Trends are short-lived and chic. We’re calling our trends movements. Why? I think it’s because we know branding but not multiplication.”
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Best by far
Toby should be the absolute winner on Rockstar: Supernova. He has stage presence, he fits with the band and the audience gets into the performance better than with any other ‘rocker’. His original song was pretty awesome, too. Now you know.
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Stress = growth
Mark Batterson talks about tension: “Tension is such a healthy thing if it is handled correctly. I think conflict is like a growth stimulus. Relational steroids. I honestly believe that truth is found in the tension of opposites. That is a linchpin in my theology. Job 11:6 says, “True wisdom has two sides.” We are…
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Excuse me while I brag …
I just want to take a moment to mention how proud I am of my amazing wife. I’ve had a great time just spending more time together as we’re adjusting to California life, looking for jobs, building relationships and searching for a new church home. She has been so committed to working hard and finding…
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Natural growth
From Money Magazine via the never eat alone blog: “Grosnoff, 66, who is trim and calm and speaks in neat paragraphs, became a stockbroker near Philadelphia in 1969, not a good time in the stock market. He saw that potential big-money clients – mostly people who had recently sold businesses – were buying certificates of…
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My thoughts this morning…
“It’s 11 a.m. on a beautiful Monday and I haven’t had a single Californian honk, yell and wave their fist at me on the road yet! It’s going to be a good week.” 🙂
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Reading this morning …
From Mastery, by E. Stanley Jones … “In a log jam in a river there is usually a key log that is holding up the whole thing. When that log is pried loose or breaks loose, then everything breaks loose with it. The key log that holds us up spiritually and keeps life jammed up…
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The Gospel: via Bono
“Love your neighbor is not advice…it’s a command. Should an accident of longitude and latitude really decide whether you live or whether you die? There are 2003 verses in scripture about the poor, second only to personal salvation. Jesus speaks of judgment only once and that is the passage in Matthew where we are asked:…
Jon Sampson 