February 2012
1 post
“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the...”
– JFK
January 2012
10 posts
“God speaks in the language you know best— not through your ears, but through...”
– Oswald Chambers
“Are we experiencing the “much more” He promised? If we are not, it is because we...”
– Oswald Chambers
http://utmost.org/look-again-and-consecrate/
“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular,...”
– AW Tozer The Pursuit of God
“Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually...”
– AW Tozer
“God says, “Be still, and know that I am God,” and still He says it,...”
– AW Tozer
The Pursuit of God
“God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can,...”
– AW Tozer
“The Pursuit of God”
“What I’m interested in seeing you do is: sharing your food with the...”
– Isaiah 58:7, 8 MSG
“All of man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room...”
– Blaise Pascal
3 Words For 2012
When I first started at LifeChurch, I saw a blog post from my new boss, Terry Storch: “3 Words for 2010”. I was new to LifeChurch (and LifeChurch culture) and I remember thinking, “Can he really be that clairvoyant? Can he really see 12 months ahead and know for certain that these words will define his year?” However, I’ve learned from Terry (and others at LifeChurch)...
“Everything in the New Testament accords with this Old Testament picture....”
– AW Tozer
The Pursuit of God
December 2011
7 posts
“Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. I...”
– AW Tozer
The Pursuit of God
“Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine and...”
– AW Tozer
The Pursuit of God
“We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they...”
– AW Tozer, “The Pursuit of God”
“It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God’s...”
– Tozer
“You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with...”
– Oswald Chambers http://utmost.org/wrestling-before-god/
“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with...”
– Hugo Cabret
Cultivating a Relationship
Erin and I just celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary. Depending on where you’re at, that might be a drop in the bucket for you, or an eternity. Regardless, we’ve spent a considerable amount of time together. We’ve seen each other cry, wrestle with tough decisions, mourn the loss of family, and laugh so hard it hurts. When we need to communicate with kids around, we can...
October 2011
3 posts
Bless You's
Me: Ah-choo!
Ava: Bless you, daddy! Why do you have the bless you's?
Me: Something tickled my nose.
Ava: Was it a caterpillar or a goat?
Me: Hah! I don't think a goat got into my nose.
Ava: Then it must've been a caterpillar.
Stepping Away From Security
This previous week I had the privilege of hearing from my pastor Craig Groeschel talk about 10 things he’s learned from 15 years of ministry at LifeChurch.tv.
The first thing on his list was this:
“To step toward your destiny, you must step away from security.”
I turned to my wife Erin and briefly smiled. She recently wrote a blog post about our journey from California...
September 2011
2 posts
“Hallelujah, I’m caving in
Hallelujah, I’m in love again...”
– Switchfoot, “Always”
“Why is “being good with people” so diminished as a competency? Is it...”
– Seth Godin, “Linchpin”
August 2011
2 posts
“Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high...”
– Seth Godin, “Linchpin”
“One of the reasons people give for not giving gifts is that they can’t...”
– Seth Godin, “Linchpin”
July 2011
3 posts
“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer....”
– John Muir
June 2011
4 posts
5-Star Movies
The topic at lunch today with Adam Bouse and Alex Tran? Favorite movies. It’s hard for me to remember them all, but Netflix can tell me how many movies I’ve given a glorious 5-star rating. Here they are (in no particular order):
12 Monkeys
Snatch
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Finding Nemo
Fight Club
Training Day
2 Days in Paris
Office Space
So I Married an Axe Murderer
...
Probably my favorite song that my brother has ever...
5 tags
Rails 3.1.0 rc5 on Heroku Cedar (with SASS and...
UPDATE: Thanks to some collaboration with Sam Soffes, the sample Github project has been updated to work with rc5 and works fine on the Heroku Cedar stack
Been itching to switch to Rails 3.1, but I’ve got some constraints: SASS, HAML, and Heroku.
Thanks to a Stackoverflow post and a lively Github discussion about Compass in Rails 3.1, I managed to successfully make a basic Rails 3.1 app...
“Religion is a breeding ground
Where the Devil’s work is deeply found,...”
– Sleeping at Last, “Naive” http://rd.io/x/QOsGKwqvhw
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
13 posts
Which glasses should I get?
“Death is a cold, blindfolded kiss
It is the finger pressed upon our lips
It...”
– @sleepingatlast
Listen on Rdio -> http://rd.io/x/QOsGKyXdVQ
“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via styleandsubstance)
25% in 3 Days
2009 was my climbing best — not only did I climb my hardest (v7), but I climbed the most: about 100 sends. This weekend, I sent 26 problems in 3 days — ~25% of my entire total for 2009. Psyched!
WatchThe Civil Wars singing “Barton Hollow” — at the Blue Door in OKC
“The smartest thing I’ve ever learned
Is that i don’t have all the...”
– @sleepingatlast
Listen on Rdio -> http://rd.io/x/QOsGKyXdVQ
February 2011
6 posts
LifeChurch.tv Core Values
We are faith-filled, big thinking, bet-the-farm risk takers. We’ll never insult God with small thinking and safe living.
We are all about the “capital C” Church! The local church is the hope of the world and we know we can accomplish infinitely more together than apart.
We give up things we love for things we love even more. It’s an honor to sacrifice for Christ and His church.
We...
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“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find...”
– John Muir