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Get Outta Town!

For the four years Pete and I have been married, we’ve made it a habit to go away for a night every three months or so. You might be wondering how we can afford weekly date nights and nights away every three months. This type of behavior doesn’t fit in to our normal spending behaviors. For a couple who slept on a ten year old mattress for the first four years of marriage, counts every dollar each month in a strict budget, and lives in a $60,000 home, you wouldn’t think we’d live extravagantly enough to sleep in a hotel every three months. The truth of the matter is, though, we can’t afford not to do these things. Read more>>

The Tyranny of Mediocrity

One of my least favorite phases to hear come form another persons mouth, or even worse mine is, that is good enough. It seems there is a tendency by the people called the human race to settle for something which is good enough. We know there is better and best still out there. It is easy to see that something worse has already been surpassed. We simply settle into the place where things are not excellent but they are not bad. This place has a name, mediocrity. “read more>>”

Adventures in Awful: Ditching People for Tools

I ditched you last Thursday. But you shouldn’t feel bad: you’re not alone. I ditched my friends on a cider-making date; I ditched friends on our football watching the following day; I ditched friends going to the movies. I ditched church; I ditched my diet (not that I normally eat well, but I survived the last 2 weeks on a straight Mountain Dew diet); I ditched things that I’d rather not report publicly; and I even ditched Bridget (but not in the “I’m leaving you” way, just in the “I’m not spending quality time with you” way). Read more>>

Get Out There and Learn Something

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I love good science fiction.  Not just science fiction.  You can’t put a ray gun in someone’s hand and impress me, or blow up city with a hovering spacecraft and say this is science fiction.  Science fiction should make you think.  If done well the characters, storyline and themes should intertwine with our [...]

Tomato, Tomotto

Besides traditional holiday meals, the birthday dinner is by far one of the most important meals shared during the year. It determines the mood of the day, and more importantly sets the tone for the upcoming year. Needless to say, I felt a lot of pressure last Tuesday when my mom offered to treat me to dinner on my birthday; I just had to pick the place. Not only was she going to pay for my meal, she was going to drive an hour on a weeknight just to do it. Read more>>

Christmas Is Not Your Birthday

Last year while at a conference at Ginghamsburg UMC in Ohio, I was introduced to the concept of Christmas is not your birthday. Instantly I fell in love and lead our congregation through the process of celebrating Jesus’ birthday. Since I have already seen commercials and other advertisements for this year, I thought it was time to get moving. What if we reduced the consumer within us all, while at the same time made it possible for others to simply live? “read more >>”

‘Let’ Not Your Heart be Troubled

Each day we are presented with choices. These choices could make or break the course of our day, week, month year… etc. It can be so easy to live in stress and be overwhelmed but I want to encourage you today that we are given the ability to live in peace at all times in and throughout any tough decisions and seemingly unbearable circumstances. Take a look at read more>>

It’s My Party…

…and today I’m going to write what I want to, if that’s ok with you. Tomorrow is my 27th birthday, and I’m feeling a bad case of the “Holy cow! A year of my life is over, where did it go?!” syndrome. As I prepare to blow out twenty-seven candles on my hypothetical birthday cake, my mind is spinning with lots of different things. read more>>

Domestication of Imagination

I did not grow up in a Disney home. We lived in the land before cable TV, and only had the stations the old antenna could draw in. This meant most of our entertainment was outside, through the woods, fields and creeks surrounding our home. Hours were spent letting our imagination take us to places and situations far from where we were. A great number of war battles were waged, great explorations of unknown lands, even the occasional African safari. For the most part when we are young our imaginations run wild. A tragedy happens as many of us age, we put away imagination exchanging it for "the real life". The end result is one of our greatest assets becomes domesticated. read more>>

Sheep & Goats

In Matthew 25, Jesus shares with us an amazing story about falling into one of two categories. Either we will be recognized as one of his sheep and placed on his right, or we will be seen as a goat and placed on his left. To be honest, I struggled with this passage for a while after reading through it because it went against one principle I understand as a Christian – that we cannot earn our salvation. read more>>

Adventures in Awful: Autotune, Eggnog, and Masterminds?

For the past few weeks I’ve had a running list of items to include in an Adventures in Awful post, but none of them seems to justify an entire column, so here is a nice little collection of Adventures in Awful to mull over. Next week I’ll be back with a focused post that stays on a single topic – promise.

1. Auto-Tune – if you have never heard of auto-tune, it is a voice-recording program that helps achieve perfect pitch. In other words read more>>