Got a minute?

’cause if you do, I’d like to share a couple of neat opportunities with you…
When I went overseas, I had about 11 weeks to find enough folks to commit to giving about $1,200 a month for at least a year while I was gone. Once I had been gone for a couple of months, a [...]

Reconciling the beatitudes with being American

I was reading in Luke 6 this morning. After Jesus pronounces His ‘blesseds’, He pronounces His ‘woes’:
24(AS) “But woe to you who are rich,(AT) for you(AU) have received your consolation.
25“Woe to you who are full now, for(AV) you shall be hungry.
“Woe to(AW) you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.”
And I asked myself, [...]

A quick thought

This morning, on the way to work, I heard a short interview with a guy from Iraq.
He was really excited because this is the first wekk in at least four years when he feels comfortable leaving his wife and kids at home while he goes out to do something.
Hmmm…
Kind of puts my day in perspective…

What’s your brand?

I came across this today.
I like the idea of it, because we often wear our faith as a brand — as if we’re in the ‘christian fish ‘ club, and that makes us better than people in the ‘Buddha’ club or the ‘Rainbow’ club or the ‘Liberal’ club…
And what’s heartbreaking about that is that many [...]

Perspective From “Voice of the Martyrs”

I have my default webpage on my personal computer set to “Voice of the Martyrs“. I do this for two reasons:
1 – I need to see this page on a regular basis
2 – I probably wouldn’t navigate there very much if it didn’t come up every time I open my web browser.
Why wouldn’t I go [...]

In Case You Think You’re Having A Bad Day

I’ll bet this isn’t how you got to work.

(ht: Justin Taylor)

“Belief” by John Mayer

I love listening to music while I work. I find that what usually happens is that, even though there are like 15gb of music on my work computer, I get in the mood for something particular, and I’ll listen to one artist or album for a good chunk of time, rather than just shuffling through [...]

Food for thought

Who Was I?

I spent some time looking at the Scripture this morning for the first time in several days. It’s so easy to let that piece of my day get away when I get busy. Somehow the logic goes, “I have to work 10 hours today so I need my extra sleep so that I can have [...]

Good point