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Category: Ideas

  • Growth Feels Good

    ….or at least it should.  You know what I’m talking about – when you are learning and growing.  It’s almost like your mind is expanding – right between your ears.  It’s that feeling of taking in information and new experiences.  Actually, it’s not just your mind expanding, but your sense…

  • Teaching Students vs. Teaching Subjects

    This is not a new idea, but there is a difference between teaching students or teaching a subject. Teaching a subject is easier than teaching students.  Knowing your subject matter and having command of the information – does not a teacher make.  Don’t get me wrong, there are a ton…

  • Sex and Identity

    Have you ever thought about your sexual identity?  I’m not talking about sexual orientation or sexual characteristics.  I am talking about your sexual identity formation.  I have never thought about mine until I started studying it and reading it.  I can’t talk about identity formation without studying sex and identity…

  • About Being Great

    Not that I know much about it, but I do know 2 things about being great. The first is a biblical principle – that if you want to be great that you have to become the least.  Inherent in greatness is least-ness or humility. The second is that part of…

  • If You Loved It

    …you’d do it.  We tend to throw out that phrase, “I’d love to be able to…..” you fill in the blank.  If you truly love something, you’d be doing it – not making excuses for why you shouldn’t or can’t do it.  If you’re doing something you don’t like or…

  • Did Not Do Well In School

    Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school.  Many of them didn’t really discover what they could d0 – and who they really were – until they’d left school and recovered from their education. The Element p. 9 – Sir Ken Robinson A…

  • The Satisfaction of Blogging

    I just saw a tweet that mentioned that. The tweet came from someone that said he was going to go back to blogging because of the satisfaction of it – as compare to tweeting. For me, there is something so extremely cathartic about blogging. You can do it anywhere (I’m…

  • Right Behind Me

    So im standing in light to get a bagel sandwich for my wife. I mean, it’s no different than any of the other lines that I’ve stood in, but the gy right behind me is right on my back. I mean, he is just so close – like the line…

  • Pray For Tiger Woods

    I was reading Ed Dobson’s blog this morning. He’s got the best blog url http://www.livingjesusly.com, and read his book if you haven’t yet. He wrote a post about Jesus and Tiger Woods.  It was a great post and check it out, but my thought as I read the post was…

  • A Deep Calm

    Have you ever had a thought and thought, “Man, I have no idea what that feels like, but I’d like to know.”  That’s kinda what I think about A Deep Calm.  I’d like to think that I know what that feels like, and to a certain extent, I know a…

  • Top of the Google Search

    I get these ideas for blog posts.  Sometimes I google the idea to see if people have written about it or thought about it.  Most of the time, the answer is yes.  People have written about it already.  I’m not the first – in fact – there are no new…

  • Kill Your Selfishness

    So I heard this morning on the radio of one of the best ways to kill selfishness.  Before I heard the bit on the radio, I would have suggested that getting married and living with someone is one of the best ways to kill selfishness.  I mean – my selfishness…