Archives for: August 2008
worship

this morning at church, we really had an incredible worship time. it was particularly good to have dr. fitz hill (president of arkansas baptist college and former razorback football assistant head coach) as the speaker. he was very engaging and spoke from the heart about the revitalization of arkansas baptist college. arkansas baptist was on the brink of closing and [...]

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internet junkie

i’m what you would call—admittedly—a computer nerd. if i had the time to do it, i would most definitely be a chronic internet surfer. in spite of my time restraints, from time to time, i do come across random and interesting websites. for instance, yesterday, i came across a site called dear adobe. it’s basically just a stripped-down gripes page [...]

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would it be wrong to pray for irony?

maybe you’ve seen this video: a couple weeks ago, this was put out by our prayerful friends at focus on the family. (because of the backlash, they quickly took it down from their website). wow…yeah… you know, i’m not even going to go into how fundamentally wrong this is and how, arguably, sinful this is (using god and misusing prayer [...]

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mccain/palin???

for those who are completely closed off to the world around you, let me announce to you that yesterday, john mccain announced that alaska governor sarah palin would be his vice presidential running mate. no, you aren’t the only one…i don’t know who that is either… let me establish a few things before i go any further. first, as you [...]

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3 years later: hurricane katrina

it’s hard to believe that today is the 3rd anniversary of hurricane katrina’s landfall on new orleans. i can definitely say that, besides 9/11, that was probably the most heartbreaking and difficult thing to watch play out on t.v. it was really a sad time to be an american. i’m not on of those politically nearsighted people who want to [...]

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office aggression

at work, we have what’s called the tweak committee. i have no idea what that stands for (and according to the head of that committee, apparently no one knows what it means…), but basically they just plan fun crap for the company. for example, tomorrow they’re bringing in an ice cream truck and everybody gets free ice cream (yes, we are [...]

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if all else fails…

…and this pastoring/church planting gig falls through, i now know that i can turn to professional modeling… yeah, so this is jay bakker, pastor of revolution church in brooklyn. i guess now that he’s in new york, he’s hit the big time. he is currently featured in an ad campaign by kenneth cole called “we all walk in different shoes” [...]

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