new page design

Thoughts on the new design? I liked the color scheme on the previous but totally didn’t like the widgets on the bottom.
Let me know your thoughts yo!

Post Christmas Thoughts

Those who know me know that I love Christmas and look forward to it each year. Each year I try to challenge our family (and myself) to live out the meaning of Christmas throughout the year as it symbolizes hope, giving, and sacrifice, all things we should be doing. B/c I love this time of [...]

ALL people have value

Please follow the link to read a story of two high school football teams. http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3789373  I’ll set a quick backdrop for you. One team was winless 0-8 while the other was 7-2. Needless to say the better team won. The importance of this game though was that the losing team was a group of teenagers serving prison [...]

Barack Obama & Rick Warren

Twice now in the last  8 months or so, those two names can be included offically in the same sentence. If you haven’t heard yet, let me make the official announcement. President-Elect Obama has chosen Pastor Rick Warren (Purpose Driven Author) to pray over the inauguration come January 2009.
Immediately, groups are absolutely livid with Obama’s [...]

Seeing the good

Last night while eating dinner at one of my favorite local places, Roosters, a sports show was on espn. One guy was talking, Woody Paige who always places a quote on a small chalkboard behind his head. Last night’s quote was this:
“Noone remembers when you do good…
Noone forgets when you do wrong”
Wow is this completely [...]

10 days

It’s been 10 days since I last posted and Christmas will be here in only 10 days.
May you be challenged & encouraged to not get caught up in the commercialism & consumerism of the holiday, rather to get caught up in the hope & love that comes from this holy day.
For many times are somewhat [...]

The economy & the radical message of Christ

Reports out today is that the U.S. lost 533,000 jobs in November alone, the biggest, or worst job-loss in 35 years. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 nationally, locally where I work, it’s over 10% and is the number one (or worst) in the state of Ohio.
Make no mistake about it, there are many credible [...]

You are what you eat?

We’ve all heard it said that you are who you hang out with. You end up becoming more like your friends than they become of you, or so they say. Of course if this is 100% accurate, nobody really knows who they are. Anyway, while I agree with this and think it’s sound advice I [...]

Thanksgiving Weekend

Who gets sick on Thanksgiving and doesn’t get to eat turkey? That’s the question I asked my wife a few times this weekend and the unfortunate answer was ME. What a bummer. I caught some stomach bug Wednesday and let it go sometime Friday night or Saturday, meaning I didn’t get to partake of any [...]