I’ve noticed something lately that has surprised me a little bit, honestly. In my current Bible reading plan, I’m in a pretty long section where I’m reading through all the Prophets in the Old Testament (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Hosea, etc.). What is surprising is that I’m pretty bored with the whole big section. What I… [Read more…]
September 3, 2010
Here’s something cool we can be a part of. Tyler Stanton, a blogger and creative personality in Atlanta, has organized 30 bloggers to support mycharitywater.org, an organization that digs wells to provide sustainable clean drinking water to people who really need it. Their goal is to raise $30,000 in 30 days – the month of… [Read more…]
September 2, 2010
Since we’ve got a men’s golf tournament coming up in a few weeks, I thought it would be good to post a link to an article I read not long ago. It comes from Tyler Stanton’s blog, and to be honest, it’s the kind of thing I think any average golfer could have written. Here… [Read more…]
September 1, 2010
I am humbled this morning. Back in July, Donald Miller announced a contest for free entry to his Living a Better Story Seminar in September. The seminar is based off his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. All people had to do was write a blog post about their story, the kind of story… [Read more…]
August 25, 2010
Wow… I honestly didn’t realize that it had been so long since I had done any substantive posting here on PoG. I apologize to those of you who read this site, and offer my summer schedule as a valid and legitimate excuse. Summers in ministry are difficult. It’s not just that busy-ness increases, it’s also… [Read more…]
August 14, 2010
The Netflix queue finally caught up with me this week, and I couldn’t avoid one of my wife’s picks – Twilight: New Moon – anymore. We watched it tonight since it was raining and we didn’t have anything else to do. And after watching it, I’m going to give it a rating of 5 cannarfs… [Read more…]
August 13, 2010
It’s raining very hard right now… There’s thunder and lightning, too… The sky is darkened, the wind is howling, and the rain is pouring… It’s the type of rain where you feel like if you step outside and breathe in too deeply you’ll drown… It’s the type of storm that makes dogs tremble and hide… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
I took a group of my students camping and whitewater rafting this past weekend. It was an adventurous trip all around, and for several reasons. For starters, even though this was our third annual trip, I still have very limited camping experience. Second, I had never been whitewater rafting before. Third, as the wonderful people… [Read more…]
August 3, 2010
There was an incident in Indianapolis back in May that has stirred up quite a bit of racial tension in that city. A young black man, Brandon Johnson, was beaten until bruised and bloodied by five white police officers, who claimed that he was resisting arrest after trying to prevent the arrest of his younger… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
I’m reading through Donald Miller‘s Searching For God Knows What right now, and I wanted to quote a brief passage in order to bring something to your attention, and also comment on what I think is a remarkable insight. And I know you think I am being immature by bringing this up, but the thing… [Read more…]
September 4, 2010
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