This weekend we had a great event at my church called Grace Cafe. We converted our multi-purpose room into a coffee house complete with Starbucks coffee, wifi and live performers. It was awesome… so awesome in fact that I drank an unmeasurable amount of coffee which kept me awake all night long. For [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Culture’
How Are You?
How are you? It's a simple question, and yet if we were to give an honest answer one word wouldn't suffice. My typical response is "I'm doing well;" however, if I were speaking from the heart my response would be totally different. Today I'm feeling run-down, tired, a little depressed, sore, anxious, overwhelmed, lethargic, unworthy, [...]
What Makes You Happy?
What makes you happy? Well, if you're between the ages of 13 and 24 it's probably not money, sex, or drugs, as others might have you believe. It's spending time with family and friends.
In a study that surveyed 1,280 people between the ages of 13 and 24, MTV and the Associated Press asked 100 questions [...]
Large House vs. Small Condo
The wife and I have been doing a little house hunting as of late. We aren’t in a position to buy yet, but we like to look and see what’s out there. Something that has struck me as odd during our search is that in our area there were a lot of little, 2 [...]
The New Hip Thing and You Don’t Have to Choose
What is the deal with these new frozen yogurt places that only serve a couple of different flavors? And, what’s wrong with the places that have more than two? Do we just have so many choices in our lives that we need to begin pairing back the possibilities? Maybe movie theaters should only show one [...]
Too Busy
I’m noticing something. I first noticed it with my church youth group. Now, I’m noticing it with my church, as a whole. And, I wouldn’t be surprised if I were to begin noticing it in everyone else I encounter. We are all “too busy.”
Every couple months when we sit down to [...]
Community – Part 2
Over the course the next few months I am going to lead a discussion on community at my church. If you read my last post, you may have seen this coming. If you didn’t, consider this your warning. I have a basic outline for the discussion, which I am borrowing from a source I happened [...]
Community
I imagine it's been a tough week in the schools, be them high schools, middle schools, or colleges, with the unfortunate events at Virginia Tech. Horrible events like this always cause me to wonder what could have been done reach out to these people who are suffering so much that they feel they [...]
How Rude
I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it seems as though some feel it's their mission to be particularly rude to food service workers. Why is that?
Today, while standing in line for my whopper with cheese at Burger King, I witnessed two customers act unnecessarily rude toward the Burger King employees who were taking their orders. I'm sure they [...]
Letters from Iwo Jima
I hope this doesn’t come off as offensive, but after seeing Letters from Iwo Jima Wednesday evening; I was amazed at how quickly I could be made to sympathize with the “enemy” after viewing things from their perspective. Perhaps the thing that I found most appalling was that I had to really keep myself [...]
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