Ranting Against Folks Who Have No Clue What Private Sector Workers Have Experienced the Past Year.

So the brilliant union workers of the transit agency which provides my primary means of transport to downtown San Francisco have threatened to strike – if they are unable to come to a satisfactory contract arrangement with management in the next day or so.  While the contract expires at midnight tonight, they have said that [...]

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A New Outlet

I still remember the mocking that occurred as a sixth grader when I carried a guitar case to school for my weekly afterschool guitar lesson.  My dad had purchased, a few years prior, a Yamaha classical guitar.  He intended to learn how to play it, but never got around to it.  But when I expressed [...]

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What Do You Need To Say To Him?

Let’s face it – all of us have challenges each day.  For some of us, we simply need support to just maintain our prayer lives.  That’s certainly true of me, as I can easily forget to talk to our Father.
Be still, and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10 NIV)
I move around too much.
I can [...]

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Hah. So Where Does Blogging Fit Into This?

So I’m an ADHD narcissistic stalker.
How about you?

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Authentic

It’s one of those words that in my prior church experience was perhaps not taken seriously enough.  What does it really mean to be “authentic” in the Christian context?
According to Merriam-Webster to be authentic is to be “not false or imitation : real, actual“.
Until recent years, I hadn’t really understood what that meant or how [...]

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More Servolution

A few quick key takeaways so far from Dino Rizzo’s Servolution…

The goal of our servolution has always been to demonstrate the love of Jesus, not to make people feel like they now owed it to us to come to a service.Serving people is not just something we want to do; it’s something we need to [...]

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Forty Days Later

…fasting is the secret key that unlocks heaven’s door and slams shut the gates of hell.

- Jentezen Franklin, “Fasting”
I have never refrained from anything for 40 days before.
I’ve never given up anything during the 40 days of Lent.
Never.
Have I fasted?
Yes…partial fasts, having gone vegetarian for a week, or the occasional workday fast wherein I’ve chosen [...]

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Blog Tour: Hero

Book: HERO
Author: Fred Stoeker & Jason Stoeker with contributions by Mike Yorkey
Summary:
You already know it’s not easy being a single man in this culture today. But it is easy to be overwhelmed, to feel helpless and hopeless about living by God’s high standards for singles. It’s easy to cave in to [...]

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Unplugged.

Online social media has really taken off this past year. With the rise of Facebook and now Twitter, we are now more connected to each other than ever before. I’m not suggesting that it’s a bad thing, mind you, but for me, I’m reaching a point where I am facing my own narcissism, and I’m [...]

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Dancing Once Again

It was a short call, as far as phone calls go.
The message was quick.
The point was received even more quickly.
A once tough veteran of the Second World War, a Navy man, a family man, a follower of Jesus, passed away this morning.
I hung up the phone and let my kids know as we drove onto [...]

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