March 2010
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“We need both rain and sunshine to grow.”
– I love hearing wisdom in unexpected places. This didn’t come from a spiritual book, a sermon, Solomon’s book of Proverbs, or an ancient haiku. I was watching a review of the 2010 college basketball season on CBS, and Clark Kellogg, a basketball analyst, said this while discussing seniors...
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“Time to practice pondering, Sweetie.”
– Elly has this great book, Little Hoot, about an owl who has to stay up late late late even though he wants to go to bed. Before the book gets to the one thing that Little Hoot doesn’t like, bedtime, it runs through a bunch of things he does like. One of those is practice time.
What do owls...
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Janice’s month of night shifts is over and we know it’s not for us.
Spring Break is over, but it actually felt like a break.
Elly and Lucy both took epic naps today.
I got a chance to write just for the fun of writing.
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“You need some [talent], but if you like to play together, if you have the...”
– Mark Pritchard, the point guard for Kansas, said this about his 1989 team. Danny Manning and coach Larry Brown left for the NBA after the 1988 championship team. The 89 Jayhawks were a bunch of dudes that one writer said “couldn’t jump over a telephone directory” and a new coach...
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Sean Benesh is Unprofessional →
When I moved to Tucson, Sean Benesh was in a position he mentions here, “a denominational church planting strategist”, one of the original Tucson folks who supported Second Mile when it was a dozen people who met in Chad’s living room, didn’t know the city, and just kept asking God what he would have us do next. He loves cities and Jesus and the church, and wants those...
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The Deal with #Thankful
One of my recent posts was the video to Iron & Wine’s “Naked As We Came” with a list of things under the word “thankful”. I started making such lists almost a year ago on Facebook because I wanted to be actively thankful, to abound in thankfulness because God says it’s a good idea for people who receive Jesus and want to walk in him.
The experiment went...
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“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof,...”
– Paul, writing to Timothy
This was the kickoff of my Week of Prayer. I read this verse, the first one in the prayer book, on Monday morning and was struck by the idea of usefulness.
I’ve been pondering this verse for a few weeks now. It gets a lot of play in the Bible Is True Dept. because of...
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Jonathan Louie is Unprofessional →
Let me tell you about my friend Jonathan. He is a deep guy. A ponderer. He blogs about worship and about leadership.
He has a theology degree, a Masters of Divinity, but he works at Gap. He’s not a pastor. He has the degree that many paid pastors have, but all this cross-referencing, contexting, and action-pointing is pro bono because he genuinely wants people to process what they hear at...
