I have posted my first official amazon.com book review today. I reviewed the book “Organic Community” by my good friend Joe Myers.
Here is what I said,
“Joe’s first book changed the way I look at community and how people belong in my community.
Joe’s second book continued to help me do that by [...]
I shaved my head. Now I am growing out my hair. I’m like a Chia Pet. Watch it Grow.
Why would you want to watch my hair grow?
I don’t know. What else is there to do with your life? You read my blog don’t you?
And no, I don’t have too much [...]
So, I have been doing some organizing of my photos since getting the new iLife 08. One of the fun things with this is going through all my old photos and seeing some young looking people (yeah, i am talking about me and my wife. Both of us are now 30 - It’s my [...]
I spend a good amount of time each week designing websites. As I do I am beginning to realize more and more that copy writing is as much a major part of the project as the design itself.
I can do my best to create a site that is visually pleasing, guides the reader and helps [...]
Recently I read the book “The Like Jesus But Not the Church” by Dan Kimball. I enjoyed it and it gave some great thoughts and insight on the large number of people who are into Jesus but (for whatever reason) don’t trust the Church.
This got me to thinking…Is the opposite true?
Is it possible that [...]
I just launched the website for the Ecclesia Network. This site is excited to see live for a few reasons: 1)I am proud of the design.
2) I am really excited about this network.
For the past 7 years or so I have been meeting with a group of pastors. We have all become close [...]
I just finished reading the book “Proper Confidence by Lesslie Newbigin. As the title suggests, this book deals with the concept of how we can have proper confidence in the Christian story. The thing I appreciate about Newbigin is the fact that his writings have 36 years of missionary experience in India to back [...]
Tonight, my parents hosted a little get together for all of their friends (many were friends who have known me since I was just a little weasel) to come and welcome Mason into our family. It really was a neat time and we were excited to have so many people be so excited about [...]
As a designer, I am working on my computer pretty much all day long. After a while, all the little movements it takes to change windows can get annoying so I usually try and set up my screen space in a way that let’s me switch as few windows as possible.
The above screen shots are [...]
Melanie, the two boys and I are headed to Chicago this weekend to introduce Mason to our family and friends back there. I grew up in Chicago and my two brothers and their families all live in the area still. It is always great to be in Chicago (if for nothing else than [...]
Most of you who know me know that I make a part-time living as a freelance web designer. Those of you who know me know that I love this work and enjoy it a ton. I got into this with the help of a few good and talented friends (thanks Jim and Matt) [...]
Before we left for Guatemala I ordered a few Lesslie Newbigin books. One of them is a small little book called “A Walk Through the Bible.”
The great things about this book:
Its only 85 easy to read pages. Seriously, where else can you get a quick summary of the Bible from an experienced and highly [...]
So, we got home last night after a long 12 hour day of travel. But, it was way worth the trip! It was awesome to see Cole again. Its funny, after you have been holding a child who weighs just 14 pounds, you realize just how big your four year old really is!
We’re [...]
We are officially in the good old US of A. We got through immigration with no problems and we’re sitting in the D concourse at Dallas / Ft. Worth waiting for our flight to Philadelphia.
Since I had been sick on Tuesday, I hadn’t eaten anything at all. Mostly because i was scared to… [...]
So, sorry for the lack of updates that last two days. I’ve been laying in bed since Monday night at 8:30 with some kind of food poisoning.  I threw up four times Tuesday. Yeah, that was a good time.  But, I think I finally have it out of me so I should be good for [...]
So this morning we woke up at 5:00 am and headed down for an early breakfast. After that we found our ride to the US Embassy to get approval for Mason’s Visa (no, not the credit card - the document he needs to be able to travel back to the US).
So, long story short, [...]
So, I was thinking, here I am writing all these letters to Mason and I know that there are a bunch of people reading this blog who are so very excited about him being part of our family lives.
So, I wanted to invite you to write something to him as well.
Just click the “comments” link [...]
Dear Mason,
So, today is the third full day we have known you. It still doesn’t seem real. When I look at you I can’t believe you are with us and we are here and that we don’t have to give you back. So many of the other families are down here to [...]