200 Post Celebration and Retrospective…

Who’d’ve guessed when I sat down a little over seven months ago to put down some thoughts that we would be here today?  Okay, maybe that’s overstating it a bit.
I recently heard that most folks last only a month or two blogging before hitting the wall.  The blogosphere is littered with abandoned links that were [...]

He’s going the distance…

For some reason I can’t seem to get this song out of my head.  So, rather than fight it, I thought I’d share it with you.  This is one of those songs that I missed originally when it came out because I was in a “No-Secular-Music” mode.  I can’t believe this song is 12 years [...]

Perfect Storm of Geekdom…

This has been a great week of “build up” events for me.
It started off with Comic Con and the roll out of the new LOST ARG – The Dharma Initiative. I spent a fair amount of time bouncing around some fan sites looking for information from Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton [...]

Right now, I am really into…

Hulu.com – TV when I want it. Great selection of TV shows and movies completely free online. They continually add new shows and content, including the recently added Daily Show with John Stewart and the Colbert Report. What more could you want?
Narrow Stairs – Death Cab for Cutie – The grooves worm [...]

What are your Twitter habits?

With all the social media options available, it seems like you can spend all of your time trying to tell everyone what you are going…
So I was really interested when I found this service from Xefer.com. Simply provide your Twitter ID and it will provide you a chart of the days and times of [...]

Aspiration of Art within the Church

Continuing thoughts on artistic expression within the church…
Every culture has a form, style, or place of prominence that its members aspire to. They are the standards by which everything is measured.  And much of what we do, whether intentional or not, is informed by these external forces.
And the church is no different.
In most churches on [...]

Confidence in awkwardness…

Talking with a filmmaker friend recently about artistic expression within the church…
It seems that finding genuinely creative thoughts, concepts, stories, and images is difficult within the church world.  Every movie is either about what Jesus did or will do.  Cross and Rapture.  That’s it.  
I think the struggle stems from the feeling that we have [...]

The day my relationships nearly died…

On Friday, much like the many others, my main line of connection with others completely died.  Twitter went down. And went down hard.  
The question has become so ubiquitous that there is even a website, www.istwitterdown. com, that serves the purpose of keeping us up on Twitter’s status.  Ironical?
But the realization is… there are so [...]

Right now, I am really into…

Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller – Picked it up on a random trip to B&N.  I know I am a little late on the bandwagon, but this caught me at the perfect time.  Recommending it to strangers on the street, it’s been that good.

Everything by Lifehouse – I guess the skit video [...]

Free Comic Book Day!

I realized I have not posted any deep thoughts in a while… Never fear!  I will be posting some new thoughts shortly!!  I’ll pray your strength…
However, I would be remiss if I didn’t give a great, big shout out to Howard for thinking of me this past weekend.  (I think that’s the first time anyone [...]