Kiva

Rose was watching Oprah a few months back and Oprah was doing this showcase about Kiva. I wish I was creative enough to come up with things like that. If you haven’t heard of it, basically it allows entrepreneurs to start business all around the world. We think of this word in America and we…

Fortuitous Bouncing

1. I wonder if it will actually snow here (Portland, OR). After living here for over 13 years now I’ve watched the news hundreds of times when snow has been predicted or expected and it is usually a let down or doesn’t even happen. It seems more legit than usual but I’ve been betrayed enough…

Snip Snip: the Damage

Well as most of you read last night about my plans, I got my hair cut this morning. It was a sad goodbye to my long hair but it was time for it to go.That was a picture of the mullet that I had during the haircut process. Here are some before/after pics. Pretty different…

Church Politics .3 of 3

#3 How Can We Allow Church Politics to Exist without Negativity 1. Hold your role loosely. As I talked about before, once you start feeling like you deserve whatever you are doing, 2. Leave gracefully (allow someone to leave under good terms)Randy Mooney has a great post about this. 3. Don’t allow legalism to creep…

Snip Snip

I last cut my hair towards the end of April. Back then I was a suit wearing businessman. So its been about 6 months. I know some of you are amazed but I did go 9 months without a cut between my freshman and sophomore years of college. So this isn’t all that bad. There…

Good Reminder

One of my favorite churches to glean from is LifeChurch in Oklahoma. Their pastor has been doing a short blog series called “spiritual esteem” that has really got me thinking. It is easy to do ministry for people because a lot of ministry is trying to reach people for Jesus. However, I think Lifechurch’s pastor…