Low-Hanging Fruit (John 15, anyone?)

Yesterday Seth Godin put forth an interesting question I couldn’t ignore.  Here’s an excerpt from his post:
Imagine that half the cars in the US get 10 miles per gallon. And half get 40 miles per gallon. Further stipulate that all cars are driven the same number of miles per year.
Now, you get one wish. You [...]

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5 Years of Marriage :: w00t!

Today my wife Molly and I celebrate 5 years of marriage.  To mark this occasion we returned to the site of our honeymoon, Seaside, FL.  We’ve grown and experienced a great deal together, and we both plan for the years to come to include many more moments to celebrate.
Bonus: For proponents of the momentum theory, [...]

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Pause for Thought

If you’re up for wonderment today, check out Team Hoyt, and watch this video from GodTube.  I saw the video first, then went looking for more information.  I would recommend viewing the video first.
This caused me to consider everything from human nature, love, suffering, redemption, joy, hope, perseverance, and what constitutes a community of care.  [...]

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Three Links for Today

Here are two links I found helpful, and one that I found funny.  Check’em out:

Blogging Advice from Tim Stevens
Helpful Advice on Keeping up on Culture
A Photo from BoingBoing that made me Laugh

Rock and roll.

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Super Mario Cakes

For those of you who grew up with an 8-bit Nintendo, check out these sweet cakes.

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Talking to Others About the Gospel

This weekend I preached a sermon and focused on evangelism.  It has been my observation that many Christian people I know are hesitant to talk about their faith.  They are eager to try and live a good life, and some are even willing to try and invite their friends to church, but sharing our faith [...]

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Prominent Words in the ESV Translation of the Bible

Check out this post from Between Two Worlds.  Here you’ll see the ESV “Wordled” through the use of a program which generates word clouds from texts that you provide.
This led me to wonder: If I were to run texts from a year of lessons or sermons I had delivered, what would be the most prominent words?
Worth pondering.

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Clever Church Marketing

After searching the web for “Jesus Sign” or “Jesus Saves Billboards,” I came across this rather intriguing article from Church Marketing Sucks.  LifeChurch.tv launched the above campaign last year, posting a series of 5 billboards pointing drivers to SatanHatesLife.com.  My favorite in the series of 5 simply says, “LifeChurch.tv sucks.”  Though I’m normally not a [...]

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Reflection (Past); Vision (Future)

It is raining.
Today has been a productive day, though quantifying “production” may be problematic.  The measure by which I have determined that today was good is not economic, nor based upon industry.  I cannot show you something that I have produced (apart from this blog post), though my day has been wrapped up in life-giving [...]

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250 Words Deemed Worthy

Sometime earlier this spring I sat down and wrote three or four brief meditations and submitted them to devozine, a resource and devotional guide for youth provided by the United Methodist publishing service, Upper Room.  I found out yesterday that one of my submissions will be published in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue.  Woohoo!
This is the [...]

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