lifeasmission

Recently my first high school girlfriend, Pam (yeah, like on the Office!), shot me an email to let me know she had stumbled on my blog. Got me wondering who else is out there. Here’s your chance to stick it to the man (the man of anonymity) and say hi. Who’s out [...]

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Besides being a gratuitous reference to Dupree’s Self-Help spiel in “You, Me and Dupree,” it’s the best title I could come up with for a post full of randomness and fun linkages. You’ve been warned, no coherency is to be found here!
Listen to this song, it’s awesome.

I hurt my knee last week and it is [...]

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Caught this over on the blog of Pete Rollins, author of How (not) To Speak of God. It’s an “image created by Nadia Pleasner as part of her Simple Living Campaign, a campaign designed to raise awareness of the Genocide in Darfur.” Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the last [...]

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I grew weary of the term and idea of small groups years ago. In most of my experience, church based small groups served mainly to isolate people in affinity based relationships. Interestingly, small groups are a relatively new concept and practice for churches in the south. Most folks down here who have [...]

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I am not much of a dancer, but I get the basics. There’s really 2 main components. First, moving your body as an expression of the music. Second, keeping in step with your partner. I think conversation (something I am way more accustomed to than dancing) is a lot like that. [...]

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This past Sunday was great. Aside from out Sunday morning gathering being its usual awesomeness, a big group of young adults got together to play Ultimate Frisbee. We have had a few games already over the past few weeks, but we had some new folks show up this week and the two teams [...]

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This is my friend Olga and I just before we ran a 5k last month.  She wanted me let you know that deserves much better than to only be included in my posts parenthetically, as in the last one.
After-all, she has raised over 6 million dollars for St. Jude’s Research Hospital.  She has finished [...]

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I was with some friends (Bobby, Julie, Eve, Jessica, Amy, Clark, Clay, Cassandra, Joy, Olga) last night and we were discussing the best romantic comedies of all time. I of course won by letting everyone know that the best romantic comedy of all time is, as we all know, “Say Anything.” It wins [...]

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I have no poems or whimsical prose - just a simple of message of, “My mom is incredible!“

While it wouldn’t be quite fair to slight the other influences we had in our lives, the fact of the matter is, my mom pretty much raised my brother Alex and I single-handedly. Working full-time to make [...]

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In conjunction with my previous 2 posts, I was reminded of this post which I titled, but never wrote. It is something I have been thinking about for a while and maybe now see a bit better, or feel a bit stronger, what I meant when I thought it up.
There is something in each [...]

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