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Category: Ideas

  • Reading Blogs

    I love reading them.  I love the honesty and the candor of them.  It’s been fun to follow people and their ideas, but even more important than that – it’s fun to get to know people by reading their ideas.  It’s great to be able to share ideas and then…

  • Reality TV Is

    I was taking a break from writing this past weekend.  I sat down in front of the tv and I watched about 20 minutes of reality tv.  I don’t even know what they call it these days, but I subjected myself to 20 minutes of The Real Housewives of Orange…

  • I Don’t Know If This is True

    This was a line that the dj on the radio program that I listen to in the morning said.  She came out and said, “I don’t know if this is true….”, but what she put it out that just as if it was true. News has always been so interesting…

  • Using Twitter to Drive Your Blog

    It only takes one tweet or one retweet in order for a high powered Twitter user to expose your writing to hundreds and thousands of people.  People typically find your blog posts via Twitter.  Check out this article about it. But people will only retweet your stuff if you write…

  • I’ll Fly Away

    In light of my previous post about songs that we sing that really guide our theology instead of the other way around, here’s another song to think about. The first verse and chorus goes something like this: Some glad morning when this life is o’er, I’ll fly away; To a…

  • The Screen is Just a Portal

    I was talking with a friend about identity formation.  They had asked if I could help them with their Facebook fantasies – they wanted me to help them with their identities online.  It was like Facebook had brought about some fantasies – of who knows what, but Facebook was the…

  • LL25: Faith in Your Leadership

    As a reminder, these leadership lessons are my own.  This is what I am learning about leadership, and they might even be amazingly simple and elementary but they are my lessons nonetheless. Leadership requires faith.  I’m not talking about faith in Jesus as Christians understand it.  I’m just talking about…

  • Bad Thinking

    When I was younger, I learned a song in church – The Countdown Song. Somewhere in Outer Space – God has prepared a place – for those who trust Him and obey – Jesus will come again – and though we don’t know when – the countdown’s getting lower every…

  • Creation Thought

    If you believe in Creation – you have been created with the ability to bear fruit.  You have been created with the ability for more.  Birds were created to make more birds.  Whales were created to make more whales.  Apple trees were created to make more apple trees.  Pretty much,…

  • Tweet like a Pharisee

    I didn’t know what else to call it.  I’m not even quite sure I know how to write down what I want to communicate, but I guess there’s a fine line between self-promotion and being a pharisee.  Okay, so I guess back in the day, being a Pharisee was quite…

  • Fruit Fast

    So I went on a bit of a fruit fast this week.  I wanted to try it because some friends that worked at the farmer’s market gave me a great deal on fruit.  It’s also super healthy for you and evidently, the fruit fast gives your digestive system a break…

  • A Great Hook

    Dum da dum dum Dum da dum dum daaaaah It doesn’t matter what it is that you do – but if you want people to remember it or check it out – have a great hook.  It doesn’t matter what your art form is.  It doesn’t matter what kind of…