How’s your day going?

Wait.
Before you answer that question, let me tell you about my friend John.
John’s an upper-level manager at Cisco.
He makes really good money.
Yesterday, John had to fire a handful of his employees.
…Unexpectedly
…13 days before Christmas
And he couldn’t tell them why…
So, as I was asking, how’s your day going?

Budgeting Idea

This is from the ‘Friday Funnies’ at the girl talk blog….
“It’s funny because it’s true” :0)

Update on Jennifer and the Cortez Family

Last week, I posted about the awesome opportunity to reach out to my sister Jennifer and her family this Christmas season.
Again, the bullet points are

7 people
2-bedroom apartment
5 children under 14 living together in one bedroom
Dad out of work right now
Opportunity to rent large house for less rent

So far, I have heard from a few of [...]

Don’t waste your life

 
DontWasteYourLife.com — One of the best resources I’ve seen in a long time. Check it out…
 
 

Powerful Video (featuring my boy Louie :0)

Saw this on ‘Take Your Vitamin Z‘ and thought I’d pass it along…
It features snippets from the ‘How Great Is Our God’ DVD by Louie Giglio, and the song ‘Never Let Go’ from the David Crowder Band’s ‘Remedy’ album.
I wish I had more time to do stuff like this :0)

Me on Stephen on Shannon on Mark Driscoll on Joel Osteen (Pt. 1)

Having some fun with the title there :0)
For anyone visiting, this is my response to the discussion from a previous post. Read the comments there, and the title will make sense too…
So, first, I’m sure this response will be fairly long. So wait ’till you have 10 minutes to read it.
Second, I am LOVING this [...]

Mark Driscoll on Joel Osteen: humble but firm

This video really speaks for itself. It’s 10 minutes long, but worth the time, especially if you’ve been thinking about buying Joel’s new book, “Becoming a better you”:

Expectations…

When I heard that Caedmon’s Call would be releasing a new album with Derek Webb back in the saddle, I was very excited. I’ve been a huge fan of Caedmon’s for a long time now, and when DW went off to do his own thing, I think most people would agree that the whole dynamic [...]

Interesting post about Joel Osteen

Have a look here.
What do you think?

2 Questions for pastor mark driscoll

Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington is taking questions (see the video below) that he’ll use as topics for 9 sermons and a book, beginning in January, 2008.
You can go to askanything.marshillchurch.org to view, submit, and vote on questions.
I asked the following questions (there’s a really short length limit, so I didn’t [...]