No time to blog right now. . . I’m within a hundred pages of being done with Harry Potter. . . Can’t stop reading. . . Will be useless until it’s finished. . . Update: I finished last night/this morning at 1 AM. What a fantastic ending to a well told story.
Random Declaration #11
My favorite coffee at Starbucks is Komodo Dragon, followed by Italian Roast, followed by Sumatra.
July 20, 2007 by 8 Comments
Missio Dei
Check out this new book by my friend Fred Peatross. Fred is a great thinker and writer who knows how to challenge what we think we already know. By the way, Fred is the only person on my “A Few of My Friends” blogroll to the right that I haven’t met personally. We’ve been interacting […]
July 19, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Catching Up With Garnett
It’s been about six months since the Leadership Journal article that Greg and I wrote was published. If you haven’t read it yet, you might want to read it and then check out these follow-up posts to it. Anti-Megachurch?New Sign Coming One of the things the article did was let a bunch of people in […]
July 18, 2007 by 5 Comments
Tend Your Garden
A message based on one of the most important lessons my dad taught me while growing up.
July 17, 2007 by 3 Comments
Emusic Anyone?
I’ve really been enjoying emusic. For 9.95 a month you get to download 30 non-restricted mp3 tracks that will play on whatever type of player you have. You can pick up some really good music from artists you’ve heard of and from some you haven’t. This is a great place to discover new music from […]
July 16, 2007 by 8 Comments
What You Regret
Back in May I blogged a bit from The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. I’ve found it to be a fascinating book that deserves more than one post. One of the reasons I’ve enjoyed reading it is because Schwartz gives me this kind of stuff to think about. One study of regret had participants […]
July 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Tolerating Pain
There are many keys to being an effective leader. Just ask John Maxwell. One that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is one that I don’t hear talked about much at leadership conferences. In order to be an effective leader you have to be able to tolerate pain. Your own pain as well as […]
July 10, 2007 by 12 Comments
No Footnotes
When I’m on vacation, one of the rules I follow with the strictness of a Pharisee is that I don’t read books with footnotes. I read enough of those already. Instead I read books that having nothing to with real life. I don’t want to think. I don’t want my vocabulary enriched. I don’t want […]
July 9, 2007 by 13 Comments
Rain, Rain, Rain
I’m back in Tulsa. We didn’t get any more rain in Austin so the flooding went down pretty quickly. Tulsa is very soggy right now. Major flooding going on in some areas. My summer travels are pretty much over. I’ve been gone for most of the month of June. It was a great break. One […]
July 3, 2007 by 5 Comments
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons