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Visual Search: Quintura

I am having some fun looking at visual search. There is Google, which is great for quick searches. But I have been looking for a way to search using visual methods. Here is Quintura’s beta. It looks interesting to me. Just hover your mouse over one of the words in the search and it will display the top links below…. Read more →

like a good Christmas card

like a good Christmas card

You read your Christmas cards like I do, I look for something personal, something that makes the ‘Merry’ of Christmas a pleasant smile. The cards mostly follow a form, merry or happy something. Sometimes ‘bah humbug’ something, but that is a different Christmas card. I was reading the start of a letter that is in the Bible today. It was… Read more →

Christian Mystic Poetry…wow

Reading Andreas Wolf’s blog this morning I followed his link to a book of poetry: Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg.  I do not know a lot about her life but some of her poetry was encouraging to me this morning. She lived three hundred years before the Reformation in the city of Magdeburg, Germany. Here are two of her poems… Read more →

My favorite…’new shoes’

I enjoyed the video below. It is music and the text on the screen comes from my favorite chapter, Colossians 3. It starts like this: 3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 3:2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,… Read more →

Off to the Ungroup- Who serves beer at a Bible Study?

Off to the Ungroup- Who serves beer at a Bible Study?

Leanne and I are off to our small group tonight. We are going for another shot in the arm from Chip Ingram. He has a DVD series called “Mirical of Life Change” that we will be watching. It will be fun to watch…not Chip so much as Brook’s response to watching Chip dramatically express himself on the DVD. The content… Read more →

Get Things Done...figureing it all out

Get Things Done…figureing it all out

I am sitting hear eating Wasabi Peas and trying to organize my life yet again.  Here is my picture of what I need to do. What is not pictured is my strategic plan for the year. I might post that some time in the future. I am really working on trying to get more peace and productivity into my life…. Read more →

Naked tree sky

Naked tree sky

This is the sky I saw as Anna and I walked out the door this morning. Frost was everywhere and although it took me five minutes or so to scrape the car windows I enjoyed it very much.  I love to see the intricacy of branches in the winter sky. It reminds me how complicated life can be but also… Read more →

Seven deadly sins American Holiday style

Walking along the buffet table with the extended family loading up my plate I thought, “Wow, this the glutton’s holiday.” So I said to my father-in-law, “I wonder how many American Holidays we can connect to the seven deadly sins. We have Thanksgiving for gluttony.” He shot back with, we have labor day for sloth. My sister-in-law said that self… Read more →

India and Church Planting

India and Church Planting

We had an amazing trip to India. You can see some pictures here and some more here while still more here. About 26 European church leaders when to see what we could learn from our Indian brothers and sisters. I think that we were all humbled by their extreme emphasis on prayer. Those who start churches will often spend eight… Read more →

emotionally intelligent...gospel?

emotionally intelligent…gospel?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-K8bpoDn-8&w=425&h=344] This is a great video about emotionally intelligent signs…it is a bit slow at first but hang in there and you will find it all worth the wait. Then read on in the blog. So, I was reading Daniel Pink’s blog looking for some more info on his book “A Whole New Mind” which I am enjoying and bumped… Read more →