Website Refresh
After helping a local church overhaul their website I thought, "Hmm... I think it's time to give my personal site a bit of a renovation." We've been snowed in today after nearly a foot of snow. Translation: a perfect time to spend some time cranking away on the site....
Back at It
In preparation for the first post of 2015 I had several possibilities that I had mused over to start this post. Lines like, “Well, I haven’t been blogging because summer started, and then fall was busy, and then I blah, blah, blah..” Or, there is always the, “I didn’t...
Goal Momentum
One of my "bucket list" goals is to eventually run a marathon. That's 26.2 miles. Years ago I gutted out a 15 mile run and I remember mile 14 was not a pleasant experience. For some reason though, (likely the recent Illinois marathon), I've been reminded of this...
Why Easter?
I was reading a book today by a Christian author in which she shared a brief email she received from one of the leaders in her church. The gist of the email was this: We in the church need to be careful of how we present Jesus. We often treat Him as a pain pill or a...
Good Friday
Many blessings on this Good Friday. May we be reminded today that He died so we could live.
Reducing Email Stress
Here's a quick stress-reducing tip for this week's blog post: Clean out your email inbox. Really? Yep. Absolutely. I stumbled across this concept a couple of years ago from productivity guru Merlin Mann. He terms it Inbox Zero. I coin it as stress-relieving bliss. For...
Antipodal Experience
I'm taking a break this week from personal thoughts and reflections with an announcement that has me pretty excited. A long time friend from high school and I have worked on a musical project on and off for the past couple of years. It's tricky because he moved to...
Jeans, Wounds, and Kisses
Here's a fact: I don't enjoy shopping for clothes. I enjoy new clothes and looking nice; I simply don't like the process of acquiring updated wardrobe items. Case in point: This past Friday I cleared some time to find some new jeans. I noticed that the jeans I have...
No Greater Love
About three months ago my daughter asked if she could hang a bulletin board in her room. It quickly became a repository for all sorts of odds and ends. Clippings from magazines, notes from her friends, and sticky notes that contain some sort of cryptic code that only...
My Ex-Girlfriend is really Hot?
This past weekend we had a group from Ministry Architects come to our church to engage in a very detailed consultation of our Family Ministries. They had an incredible amount of wisdom to share with our church. While I’m not...