Tony Campolo was the speaker at this year’s Yearly Meeting for the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, and I happened to be the one responsible for the live streaming of it (you can still go watch the video on the site). He spoke three times, but there was one topic that has stuck with me [...]
Categories: God Type Things,Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: authority, NWYM, power, Tony Campolo
So tonight in our small group it was my turn to share some of my spiritual journey. As I’ve been doing my mental preparation for it over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking at things from my past with my present-day glasses on. The more I looked at a situation from 15+ years [...]
Categories: God Type Things
Tagged: worship
Back when I was growing up, I got into trouble on more than one occasion. It could be something like not turning in a school project. After the error had been discovered by my parents, we would have the “talk.” This usually went something like this. “Jason, you [insert screwup here]. What are you going [...]
Categories: God Type Things
A while back in church this video clip was shown. I thought it was one of the funniest things I’ve seen in church ever. So, I asked for a copy of it, and now I am passing it along to you all.
Categories: God Type Things,Music
I recently went to the dentist for the first time since the spring of 1998. Yup, that’s 7.5 years. Actually, I’ve gone twice recently. The first trip was my whole mouth evaluation where they took a full set of xrays, plus some other stuff. Then just this last week I went back and had my [...]
Categories: God Type Things
This morning in church Gregg spoke on Colossians 3:12-17. Verse 12 says this: Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. In reference to “patience” Gregg had this to say, “I can’t be patient unless you do something annoying.” The context of that statement is [...]
Categories: God Type Things
As a kid you might hear that you are in trouble, in a great class, or in line to get your hair combed for lice by the school nurse. Well, where I (and my wife too) am is this place called escrow. That is right, we are in the process of buying a house. It’s [...]
Categories: God Type Things,Grown Up Stuff
Well, this will hopefully catch you up on what’s been going on in my world over the last week-and-a-half. As mentioned here, I was recently in Michigan for a conference. There are portions of the conference that were geared towards me, more of the technical/operations side of things. It was good to hear from the [...]
Categories: Baseball,God Type Things,Red Sox,Technology
Found this quiz online which is supposed to rate my “world view”. Some of the questions I didn’t really understand so I just marked the neutral option Well, here is “my world view”: You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who [...]
Categories: God Type Things