John on September 8th, 2008

Would you play this?

See how much Guitar Praise costs.
Or should they be sued for copyright infringement?
(As you can see from my 3 word author bio on top of the left sidebar, I am very interested to hear your answers…)

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John on August 25th, 2008

As I promised last week, I’ve got a copy of Mark Batterson’s Wild Goose Chase to give away.  Since this book is all about encouraging us to take risks for God and to go on adventures for His kingdom, I want to hear about an adventure would would like to go on.  Maybe it’s a [...]

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John on August 11th, 2008

One of my favorite things about bringing our church’s 8th graders up to Camp Luther is the 3rd learning session we have with them. In the morning, after breakfast, but before kayaking and challenge courses, the kids get a chance to write down any question they have about faith, the Church, Jesus, or anything at [...]

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John on August 3rd, 2008

Summer Camp.
There’s nothing more frightening to an introverted 10 year old than hearing mother say, “Let’s go! Time to get in the van & go to summer camp!”
Thankfully, that wasn’t me. I loved to go to camp! My parents would ship me off to Camp LRCA for a week every summer & I [...]

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John on July 28th, 2008

My sister-in-law is heading to the Grand Canyon today as part of her long drive back home from Las Vegas.
Have you been to the Grand Canyon?
What did you think?  Was it beautiful, or just a hole in the ground?
Chime in below…

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John on July 21st, 2008

I mentioned last Friday that there was a pretty good story for the reason why I missed posting the Friday Fun links on July 11.
Here’s the summary of that story, in visual form:

Here’s the wordy version (with a gratuitous Jesus reference just for fun).

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John on July 15th, 2008

integrity

\in-ˈte-grə-tē\ noun
1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values 2 : an unimpaired condition 3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided
I took a short vacation to the Twin Cities this past weekend.  It was fantastic!  We got to [...]

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John on July 7th, 2008

“Daddy, fireworks go boom! boom!”  – Ethan (2)
When I was a kid, our fireworks experience was something like this:
park a half mile away, find a fantastic spot to put our blanket down, get swarmed by unchaperoned teenagers, move our blanket to a substandard spot, wait forever for it to get dark, watch 20 *booming* fireworks [...]

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John on June 30th, 2008

In honor of Scot McKnight’s new Biblical word study on ‘heaven’, I’ve got a simple question for you today.
What are you looking forward to in heaven?
Share your thoughts today by leaving a comment!
FYI:
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John on June 23rd, 2008

Today is my birthday.    I’m super old.
I remember when I was 5 and wearing Transformer undies, my babysitter & neighbor Emily asked me how old I thought she was.  Now if you’ve ever done this to a little kid, you know it’s a mean trick.  Kids have no numerical concept of age.
A 5 year old [...]

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