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Archive for November, 2008

Worship Fully

My message prep this week has forced me to take a new look at “worship.” If you know me, you know that I am a conflicted individual when it comes to worship… that is probably why I am always compelled to put the word in quotes. I often question whether what we spend so much [...]

What I’ve Been Up To

I know I haven’t been blogging lately but I’ve been busy. For our Christmas series starting this weekend (X: the Christmas story you’ve never heard), we needed candle. Big candles. There will be more to come about this series but for now, I will let you in on the candles we wanted to use for [...]

We’re Not Done

This is the last of a series of videos highlighting the ministries of my church. I thought it was the most powerful and reminded me why we do what we do. If you have some time, watch Mark’s message (below) in which he says, “Lets be honest, having to sell ONE of your TWO luxury [...]

Only in Alaska

Gov. Palin exercised her gubernatorial powers by pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving at an Alaskan turkey farm. Then proceeded to conduct interviews with the media… all the while, not-so-lucky turkeys were being slaughtered in the background. This is great TV.

27 Websites That Became Books

The AV Club has published a list of its favorite websites that have been made into books. My favorites from their list is Garfield Minus Garfield (HT to DK), Indexed, and The Joys of Engrish. And despite the rumors, there are NO PLANS for a Rethynk book… mainly because nobody cares.
You can see AV’s list [...]

Stealing from Obama

Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu has stolen from President-elect Barack Obama. As seen in the screenshot below, the current candidate has basically plagiarized the Obama website (flipping the div structure though) and color/media marketing scheme. Its not a bad idea, shoot I even predicted that Obama’s awesome web 2.0 movement would make him president [...]

Time to Laugh

This movie was on this weekend and I forgot how funny this scene was. My wife and I were laughing so hard we almost threw up. Enjoy.

Not Again

As a youth pastor, how do you be what your students need when THIS happens?