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Archive for November, 2007
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007To all of Judah’s family, friends, and fans: If you intend to purchase Judah a Christmas or Birthday present (January 2) this year, here’s his first attempt at an Amazon Wish List. Check back for updates. Thanks!
Great Day for Baseball*
Friday, November 16th, 2007+ Bonds indicted AND + A-rod’s coming back home AND + Boras has been humbled AND + The Yankees drove up the Sawx price to retain World Series MVP (or snagged him away) AND + The Mets signed … Torre…alba.
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, November 16th, 2007Inter-Generational Ministry She (Selma, rt) was my Sunday School teacher; she (Rachel, l) was in my youth group. Together they serve Lily of the Valley Orphanage in Tijuana. + From “Lily of the Valley Tijuana” photo set.
What’s missing in anti-violence programs
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Past initiatives to stem youth violence have the curious quality of helping everyone except the very gang-involved young people who are most unreachable and most likely to commit crime. Rudy offers his opinion in today’s Pasadena Star News.
Time to be vulnerable
Thursday, November 15th, 2007“Bob from the church is one of the most honest men you’ll ever meet, passionate about the Lord, compassionate for people, and real about his shortcomings. That realness made him safe to talk to, so I vented one evening. He listened. Empathized. Did all the things a friend does in a crisis. But then he [...]
Would you knowingly support slavery?
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Perhaps you don’t remember that Snickers bar I sneaked last week. But maybe you can recall the chocolate milk you served your kid with breakfast. Or the triple chocolate chunk ice cream indulgence from this weekend. Or the ungodly pounds of chocolate distributed to emancipated American children two weeks ago on Halloween. We were inadvertently [...]
What Brian McLaren wants every pastor in America to do about evangelism
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007First, we as church leaders have to encourage people to count conversations rather than conversions. If we focus on counting conversions, we’ll tend to pressure people into making a decision before they’re ready. Instead, if we encourage people to say that conversations count, then relationships develop. Then when people do make a decision, they’ve counted [...]
Balance is Bunk?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The truth is, balance is bunk. It is an unattainable pipe dream, a vain artifice that offers mostly rhetorical solutions to problems of logistics and economics. The quest for balance between work and life, as we’ve come to think of it, isn’t just a losing proposition; it’s a hurtful, destructive one. … There’s a better [...]
I can relate to the second half of this
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007I’ve never used a computer. I do all my writing on an ancient IBM Selectric. And I do my research in books. Once in a while I’ll hire a college student to pull something off the Internet, if I need an up-to-the-minute statistic or a Lexis/Nexis search or that sort of thing. But that’s as [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Consider the Lilies Support the 120 children who live at LOTV’s Chihuahua, Mexico orphanage as they outreach to 3,000 children this Christmas. Donate online here.
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