From the category archives:
yes, i have a history of bashing the mighty-but-tiny uke. a brief history of our relationship: the newest dangerous trend amongst teenagers: my first uke post, after exposure to the tiny troublemaker at a youth camp. clarifying my ukulele position: pretty much what it says it is. no ukes: the t-shirt i inspired! rock that [...]
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whether it’s ultimately helpful to me or not, i tend to “evaluate” worship leaders in 3 ways: 1. do i like their music? are they good musicians and singers? is it a style i connect with? 2. do i find, when listening to a cd or sitting in a context where the worship leader is [...]
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here’s a weird little collection of things i’ve thought about posting, but haven’t gotten around to… ———— a new friend of mine, jeff goins, who i met through my work with adventures in missions, has written a fantastic manifesto published on the provocative website, change this. my understanding is that the first week jeff posted [...]
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i posted a link to this video days ago, but wanted to embed it now that i have bandwidth. we found rudy in a tent hospital, where he was healing from a surgery on a broken femur. he sang this beautiful version of “redemption song” for us that brought us all to tears. rudy taught [...]
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Millennials’ Judgments About Recent Trends Not So Different report on new pew research a tease: As might be expected, members of the Millennial generation are enthusiastic about the technological and communication advances of the past decade. They are also highly accepting of societal changes such as the greater availability of green products and more racial [...]
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wicked awesome. (re-discovered this on russ cantu’s blog)
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i’ve had this meme from time traveling cyndi in my post drafts for well more than a year. crazy. so, i’m gonna do it! yes, i am! now! 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) 2. Put it on shuffle 3. Press play 4. For every question, type the song that’s playing [...]
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the weekend that was: got home from korea around noon on friday and had a wonderful family weekend (with a little work thrown in). had a nice lunch with jeannie and friday, then picked the kids up from school. in the evening, we took off as a fam and got pedicures (yes, it’s manly). i [...]
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one of the stars of wolverine is a young korean-american actor named daniel henney (originally from michigan!), who lives here now. he hosted a dinner for us saturday night (because of the connection with ralph). i sat next to him, and it was fun to get to know him a little bit. really, really nice [...]
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