Earlier this week I took Rose to see Brooke Fraser as a Christmas present. I did view the Broadway schedule and still chose the Brooke Fraser concert because it was nearer. Needless to say, she’s a big fan. We don’t get out to concerts too often. They’re expensive and time consuming and they don’t often…
A Message on Living Selfishly
-Sermon Given on 11/23/2010. About 4 years ago I got married to my wife Rose. Shortly after our honeymoon I started my 60 hour-a-week sales job. It was an extremely exhausting and demanding job. I remember within my first week on the job coming home from work absolutely dead to the world. Rose was making…
Fortuitous Bouncing
Tonight is Nebraska’s last game in the Big 12. Fitting that it is against Oklahoma. Not really sad to see them go to the Big 10. (UPDATE: That was torture to watch. Only bad teams blow leads like they had…ugh) I have a major love/hate relationship with Christmas songs. People want to hear them at…
How Blogging Taught Me to Preach
This semester I took my first preaching course in seminary. Taking the course was a big step for me, in a weird way. I’m in front of people all the time. Sometimes leading smaller groups, other times leading thousands. But the thought of getting up and speaking for a long period of time is so…
Living "Above Reproach" in a World Full of Jay-Zs and Rated R Movies
Now and then I come across the negatives aspects social media can have on our culture. Often it gives people who have a bone to pick a voice. Or it gives people who should not open their mouth (keyboard) a voice. Or people say things they shouldn’t say out loud. Or they say things to…
Fortuitous Bouncing
The closest I got to a shopping mall yesterday was dropping Rose off for work. That was enough for me. College football won’t ever be better than pro football until they get a playoff system. Anytime you have to argue about who is best instead of watching it on the field, you have a flawed…