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Monday, December 18th, 2006Diana and I are going to charity:water’s Christmas fundraising ball tonight as guests of “Music: Kenny Mitchell.” The guest list includes Leo, Justin (Sexy Back) Timberlake, Mark (Funky Bunch) Wahlberg, and Diana and Jeremy Del Rio. She’s gonna make me look good. Kenny previously DJ’ed charity’s coming out party at Fashion Week in September. Watch [...]
Judah’s Christmas Photo Shoot
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Slideshow (Christmas 2006 Photo Set, 42 photos) Includes photos of the grades 1-4 “Christmas in Reverse” cantada, 12/14/06, and Christmas Photo Shoot, 12/17/06 Related + Rockefeller Center at Christmas + Christmas Purchases Support Generation Xcel + Judah’s Christmas Wish List
Diana’s New Website
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Preview Diana’s newly redesigned beta site here. Please email me feedback.
Carrying your
Friday, December 15th, 2006Andrew Jones (a/k/a Tall Skinny Kiwi) is a leading voice of the global emerging church and an extraordinary blogger. Last month, in the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal, he posted a beautiful reflection on the scandal’s impact on Haggard’s children and on the Church’s duty to help them shoulder the burden of Haggard’s shame. [...]
Happy Homeless Family
Friday, December 15th, 2006“The city of Boston sparked controversy when it renamed the spruce tree in Boston Common a holiday tree instead of a Christmas tree. The city’s nativity scene will now be [called] the Holiday Homeless Family.” – Tina Fey on SNL’s “Weekend Update”
The Necessity of Wounds
Thursday, December 14th, 2006If the truth were known, the saints of God in every age were only effective after they had been wounded. They experienced the humbling wounds that brought contrition, compassion and a yearning for the knowledge of God. – A.W. Tozer
NBA players fan into flame the gifts within them
Thursday, December 14th, 2006Great game last night. The Nets kicked Buck Butt, 108-95. Jason Kidd had his third triple double in four games (10, 10, 10) and the 80th of his career, and Vince-anity Carter scored 36. In keeping with last year’s tradition of opposing teams not performing well after my chapel services, perennial Buck All-Star and the [...]
How would you spend a $100 million bonus?
Thursday, December 14th, 2006Wall Street behemoth Goldman Sachs will award over $16 billion in bonuses this holiday season  an average of over $600,000 per employee, but up to $100 million for the highest earners. ABC News offers perspective on what $100 million could buy/give.
Tonight
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006- v – New Jersey Nets chaplain Willie Alfonso invited me to speak at a joint Nets/Bucks chapel service before tonight’s game at Continental Airlines Arena. I’ll be sharing unconventional Christmas greetings with the players. Keep us in prayer. Last time I did a team chapel (Oakland Raiders at New York Jets), my dad recommended [...]
What to make of this?
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006Jeff asks a great question about the New York Times’ 6-part series on the seperation of church and state (by Diana Henriques). I haven’t read every article yet, but my initial skeptism wonders whether the Times isn’t doing a disservice to the larger debate by framing every issue as an accusation that faith groups are [...]
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