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Archive for December, 2007
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007My initial webcast video was pulled by YouTube for copyright reasons, so here’s another, about the impediments current copyright laws play on creativity. Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford Law Professor and the legal genius behind Creative Commons licensing and many other internet innovations. Prof. Lawrence Lessig at TED 11 8 credit loan problem payday8 payday [...]
There is a love
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007There is a love so pure and sweet Tried and true, it cannot be beat This love proves steady through the years Both young and old, it sees their tears Through good and bad it’s always there Struggles and hardships it will bear This love brings comfort, joy and peace It saves, it heals, it [...]
About those ice storms in Oklahoma
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007My cousin James Kruse is on staff at oneeighty youth ministries in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the center of the ice storm that’s plagued the Midwest the past couple of days. Power outages forced him and his family (8-months pregnant wife Sarah and two little boys) to evacuate their home last night, only to have to [...]
Almost 30
Monday, December 10th, 2007Happy birthday, Jamie! He’s an NYU grad, Xcel co-founder, singer at Abounding Grace, and a former banker turned rising star of the NYPD. My baby brother turns 28 today. He and his growing family on Thanksgiving:
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, December 10th, 2007Heroes Pastor Paul Curtis, Crossroads Christian Church Pastor Paul’s been teaching through Romans 12 the past few weeks. One nugget from last week, in a discussion about the unique giftedness God creates in each of us: “Grace empowers confidence without arrogance. Mercy allows humility without shame.” Download the sermon mp3s here.
Please Pray: YWAM and New Life
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Please join us in praying for those affected by today’s shooting at the Youth with a Mission base in Denver. Below is the official statement from YWAM concerning the shooting. The tragedy hits close to home because YWAM has been a ministry partner since the 1980s. In the last 20 years, Abounding Grace and Generation [...]
Schmap!! New York
Sunday, December 9th, 2007The good people at Schmap!! selected another one of my pictures to use in their online travel guides. This time it’s a picture of a seagull foraging for food at Brighton Beach.
Flickr Photo Fun
Friday, December 7th, 2007Flickr has a great feature that allows users to organize multiple sets of photos into collections. It’s especially helpful when one has to find a particular within a growing collection of almost 6,000. New Collections Family 36 sets Judah 13 sets New York, NY 9 sets Ministry 13 sets Generation Xcel 12 sets Travel 14 [...]
S-E-X Talk
Friday, December 7th, 2007Interesting conversation by a Chi-town youth pastor about how Evangelicals teach abstinence to teens. I have been thinking lately, though, about the typical Evangelical approach to “abstinence education†(including our approach here), and Josh McDowell brought the issue back to the forefront of my thinking. His approach typifies what you will hear and see among [...]
If we overcome accusers by the word of our testimony
Friday, December 7th, 2007Why is televangelist Creflo Dollar refusing to testify to the Senate’s finance committee about spending irregularities? Below is an interesting contrast. Revelation 12:10-11: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God [...]
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