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So I was browsing pinterest and came across mapcrunch.com.  It looked awesome, and I was bored.  If you aren’t familiar with the concept, here is the basic premise: You are knocked out, and wake up in a random location somewhere in the world.  Mapcrunch will do this for you.  Wake up, head to an airport […]

First off, I’m a Dad not a Momma so I co-read through this one with my wife.  Parenting is parenting, so I decided I could adapt any info.  Whether you end up agreeing with the author’s parenting styles or methods, the book is certainly worth a read.  You’ll find something use, many will find plenty […]

I assigned homework for our “The Circle Maker” class last week, and thought it’d be responsible to do the homework as well.  The task was simple, and incredibly difficult: Write out the start of your life goal list.  I’m posting below what I have so far.  Some goals are selfish, some goals seem impossible, but […]

Well, Dr. Henry Cloud has written an amazing leadership resource for those wanting to grow their leadership capabilities. At the core of this book’s insight, it’s all about people, relationships, and creating boundaries that facilitate success. The author shares 7 leadership boundaries that will make everything else work. Success is based on mastery of these […]

Draw the Circle is a supplemental devotional to The Circle Maker, but also can be used just as its own prayer devotional. Each day, author Mark Batterson gives a new emphasis and challenge focused on deepening and growing the reader’s prayer life. Supported by personal stories, the Bible, and outside illustrations, the main focus of […]

This book is exactly what the title says it will be about. It answers the question of who is Jesus by giving six different answers. Jesus is Your Friend, Grace, the Point, Happy, Here, and Alive. Each chapter makes several points that support why Jesus Is whatever that chapter is claiming. I really liked Jesus […]

10 years ago this month, my entire life was flipped upside down.  This is a good thing, since the direction before that wasn’t especially exciting.  I’d started following Jesus nine months earlier, but really didn’t have any life direction.  I had pain in my back every day from an idiotic golf cart accident and soccer […]

With World Down Syndrome day approaching, I felt that it was appropriate to share and promote a movement that is aiming to stop derogatory speech towards individuals with intellectual disabilities. It’s called “spread the word to end the word” and the word is retard.  This word is so common place in many people’s everyday speech […]

I just finished Deep and Wide by Andy Stanley, and left feeling happily challenged.  I thought the book was structured great; he broke it into three main sections all that could stand alone if you only wanted to read for certain information.  The idea of doing church for people who don’t go to church is […]

Before you read on, take the 3 minutes to watch the pep talk video if you haven’t already seen it. Have you ever got up in the morning feeling a little gloomy, feeling like the day isn’t going to go well?  But then you open twitter, see someone posted something that you normally never open, […]