It is a somewhat common thing to discuss the one sporting event you would want to attend in person. Far less often do we discuss the one sporting event we would prefer to compete in. Immediately I think of competing in world-wide events such as the Olympics or the World Cup. But I’d definitely prefer…
Fortuitous Bouncing
I calculated how many hours since this past Sunday I had either been doing homework, spending time in class, or working and it confirmed just how long of a week it was. Over 75 hours in 6 days. Needless to say, there was a reason I didn’t blog as much last week. One more week…
Social Media Is About Me
Spend a while on the various social media networks that exist and it becomes quite obvious who is in social media to build up themselves. They only talk about their blog posts or they never talk with the people who are trying to talk with them or they are constantly asking for prayer without ever…
Your Pastor
One interesting aspect of today’s culture of live steaming services on the web, podcasts, blogs, and tweets is that we essentially have access to almost any pastor and any church we choose. And our culture of the celebrity Christian pastor probably doesn’t help anything either. Despite the negative connotations I associate with this celebrity pastors…
Fortuitous Bouncing
We haven’t had an 80* day in Portland yet this year…until today. It is the latest time ever in recorded history that we’ve had our first 80* day this late in the calender year. Summer is almost here for us. Today was also the day I had marked on my calender that I would be…
Church Unique
I just finished reading Church Unique by Will Mancini a few days ago for a class I’m taking next week. The main concept of the book is that each church has a unique culture, vision, and movement but few churches are living out those things. My favorite part of the whole book was a quote…