Jonestown

Tonight on SportsCenter they had a showcase on Jim Jones, one of the most infamous men in US History. I have to admit that I had never heard of him. It isn’t common for history classes to teach modern religion history is my only excuse. I consider myself a person who knows a fair amount…

Role Play

A friend of mine from college, Scott Mackey, wrote a blog that kind of sparked my thinking. You can take a look at it here. He says, “Perhaps someday there will be a movement of young (or even old) professionals to the streets. The message of the “the other” will penetrate the veneer of the…

Charge Me Up

For the past month my cell phone would go into low battery mode after I had been talking on it for 10 or 15 minutes. I have the Krazr…the skinny version of the Razr. I got it in February. So I called Verizon customer service and complained about it and they finally offered to send…

Tragedy

Sunday morning at 1am on 99W there was someone driving northbound in the southbound lanes and hit a car of 4 girls from George Fox. One of those girls was killed. She was my age, she was actually in my orientation group freshman year of college. I had never really talked to her, or the…

a Starting point

I’m going to talk some about church politics later this week I think. I was watching this video of a message that Andy Stanley gave to a bunch of pastors at a conference. Its about church leadership and its only seven minutes. There are a lot of reasons church politics exist but I thought the…