Friday night I violated my Legend of Zorro-induced vow to never again watch a movie without checking it out on rottentomatoes.com first. I think this play was justified in this case, because the film in question may be the ultimate “Logomanikos” movie: Wordplay. In case you missed it, Wordplay is the 2006 documentary about Will [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Wordplay
Posted in Movies, tagged Crosswords, Movies, Scrabble, Words on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Family Values
Posted in family, tagged core values, family, mission on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Now there’s a phrase that’s thrown around a lot without much in the way of a real definition. Shannon and I have recently taken some time to work out a little more precisely what it means in our life. At a marriage workshop we attended at the Young Life All-Staff Conference in January, the speaker [...]
Bella Tuscany
Posted in family, tagged family, Italy, pictures, travel on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, we had the privilege of taking a week of vacation in Italy, our old stomping ground from 1999-2001. We visited some places we hadn’t seen before (plus a few we had), spent a lot of time just relaxing, and of course feasted copiously on the world’s greatest cuisine. We managed to get in [...]
Compassion Forum
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, Faith, Obama, Politics, Presidential Campaign, Religion on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t generally enjoy writing much about politics lately, but I couldn’t resist referencing this event. Shannon and I were traveling last week so I don’t know if it made a big splash in the public consciousness or not, but I found it fascinating to read the transcript of this forum. For those that missed [...]
A Year Past our Prime
Posted in family, tagged family, geek, Life, math, numbers on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One year ago, on April 17, 2007, our youngest son Zachary turned 11 months old. On that day, I was 37 years old, Shannon was 31, Caleb 5, and Joseph 3. My fellow geeks out there have already caught the pattern (and titular word play) – all five of us had prime numbers for ages. [...]
Back in Italy
Posted in Humor, tagged family, Humor, travel, videos on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shannon and I are in Italy this week. Perhaps I’ll write some meaningful thoughts about this week later, but in the meantime, I’ll just share this:
Being back here has reminded us of this video, which we came across back when we were living in Naples. It is so true – especially the [...]
Can You Spot the Cancer Survivor?
Posted in Life, Uncategorized, tagged Cancer, Easter, family, testimony on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The picture is from Easter 2006. I think Resurrection Sunday will always remind me of cancer and chemotherapy – and the new life that came through that time of “death”.
A couple weeks ago, Shannon and I were reflecting on our personal testimonies. By that, I don’t mean simply “when and how did we become [...]
Slovakia 2008
Posted in Youth Ministry, tagged service project, Slovakia, videos, Youth Ministry on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a quick look into the Club Beyond service project in Presov, Slovakia, March 23-30. These are mostly scenes from our relational ministry programs – VBS crafts in elementary classrooms, ESL conversations, and an after school Club program – and a little bit from our construction project, building a fence and some benches. Watch carefully, [...]
Service Projects, Experience, and Chambers
Posted in Theology, tagged Club Beyond, evangelism, Oswald Chambers, postmodernism, quotes, service project, Theology, Youth Ministry on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just got back from a pretty incredible week in Slovakia with our high school students. For the past few years, I’ve become more and more convinced of the effectiveness of service projects as outreach / evangelism events. Though in our ministry, they are explicitly designed as “growth” events for Christian teens, we always see [...]
