Thankful

Yesterday was a wonderful day.
After spending Thanksgiving with my family for 26 consecutive years, this was my first one apart from them.  As bummed as I was about that fact, I knew that Christie and I had much to look forward to in spending the day with friends here in Oceanside.  We spent the early [...]

Buy Less – Give More: The Advent Conspiracy

Take a look at this video I found over at The Church Bartender:

Beautiful.
I should add that I have a history of being a card carrying Christmas consumer.  Big time.  I was the kid who was secretly opening gifts on December 22nd while my parents weren’t home just to get a glimpse [...]

The Prayer of an Ordinary Radical

I’ve been reading Shane Claiborne’s new book Becoming the Answer to our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals lately (it’s my latest book I’ve been reading when I should be doing school reading).  It’s a short book that could easily be read in a sitting or two, but I’ve been spacing it out a bit more.  [...]

Will It Blend? Is this real?

Louie showed me a view of these videos last night before our small group, so I’d thought I’d share a few here.  They’re pretty funny/ridiculous. This guy tries to blend (as in “mix in a blender”) items ranging from glow sticks to light bulbs to iPhones to golf balls.  I am convinced the cubic zirconium [...]

Reviving an Old Love/Hate Relationship

When I was in college I hated Greek.
I mean, I really hated Greek.
I took it because I also hated Spanish, I needed a foreign language to graduate, and knew I would have to take it in seminary eventually.  Man, did I hate it.  For my entire junior year of college it occupied roughly 75% of [...]

Microfinance- A Better Way to Give

To all of my friends who, like me, want to make a difference, but who, also like me, often don’t really know where to start:
I have never met Mrs. Sim Rorn.
I do not know her family.  I do not know what color eyes she has.  I do not know what she likes to do in [...]

Future of Forestry Christmas EP = Awesome

I have a sort of love/hate relationship with Christmas albums.  Each year it is always interesting to see what artists and bands are coming out with Christmas projects, and every year there are some good ones and some not so good ones.  I was delighted to see that this year one of my favorite bands, [...]

What’s your Carbon Footprint?

So, I just took an interesting little quiz over on www.myfootprint.org.
According to the quiz (that took about five minutes to complete), if everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle, we would need 4.5 “earths” to support all of us. That’s depressing.
Christie and I have recently started trying to be more environmentally conscious, and we are [...]

“My interest has always been Truth”

This post is an addendum to my post from yesterday.
A while back I read an interview with Rob Bell in Relevant magazine (which regrettably I can no longer find online). Those of you that have heard of Rob no doubt know that he has stirred up a fair amount of theological controversy throughout his career.  [...]

On being “provocative”

A little over a month ago Christie and I were at a wedding reception sitting around a table with some of our friends from Seven24, the college and young adult group at New Song Community Church that I pastor.  At one point during the evening conversation turned to Seven24, at which point one of our [...]