As is suggested for all new bloggers, I got involved in the Authority Blogger Forum. It was great. They have some real authorities (moderators) there that are trying to help others make better decisions with their blogs. It is a great resource for all bloggers, new and old.
I’ve been considering changing my theme to something [...]
Last night my wife and I saw the new movie Juno. Really, I had no interest in seeing it until I saw that Dwight Schrute was in it – he actually only had a tiny part to play, but it was great. In one sentence I thought it was was one of the most cleverly [...]
Today, Mark Oestreicher (brilliant leader of the crew over at Youth Specialties) posted about a real churches real job posting listing lots of requirements and lots of responsibilities and hardly any compensation.
It is this sort of thing that makes me so reluctant to get back into youth ministry. Now, I wasn’t [...]
Friday ($174.00) . People are strange creatures. It seems that, without being trained or prompted, we’ve learned to respond to certain situations the same way. For instance, even when someone is holding the door open for you, you still have to reach out and hold the door open yourself as if the person would let [...]
Our lives are overflowing with information. Everywhere we look we are being screamed at by all sorts of media: books , movies, magazines, blogs, podcasts, newspapers, TV shows, and much more.
At some point we have to make a decision about what to do with it all. We have to either turn it off and throw it away, ignoring it all because we can't take anymore. Or we have to sort the wheat from the chaff, figure out what it is telling us, consider what we can learn from it, and implement that practices that can make us better.
Lernr is about that process of learning what we can from different sources and applying it to our lives.
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
~ Mark Twain