Like many of you, I was completely taken in Friday night by the spectacle that was the opening ceremonies of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, China.
The fireworks were breathtaking, the choreography and synchronicity were stellar, and the music was beautiful, haunting, and perfectly appropriate for the event.
Now, we begin to learn that some parts of [...]

Ok, I’ll admit it. I’m a prejudiced person. There is a certain kind of human in the world that I just can’t stand being around. I don’t like the way they look, and their very look makes me distrust them and want to stay very far away from them.
I don’t like people who are smug.
smug
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Have you seen the blog Graph Jam? Lots of great stuff there. I thought this one was fantastic.

Too true, too true.

committee, design, madness

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I am called…
to a land whose culture and language are often strange to me.
to a land whose music is diverse and often foreign to my ears.
to a land with many tribes whose dress and customs are so diverse they cause separation and segregation.
to a land whose people worship a multitude of gods.
to a land whose [...]

Hey all! I’m taking part in Third Day’s Street Week to help promote their new album. Honestly, this is not something I would normally do, even for a band as awesome as Third Day. So, let me tell you why I’m jumping into the mix.
I’ve been listening to the new album, Revelation, for a few [...]

A word to companies out there who are wondering how to improve customer service. I Twittered this earlier today:

A little while later I receive this reply:

This garnered my response:

So, I’m now giving TweetDeck another try in conjunction with Spaces on my MacBook.
That’s the way customer service should be handled. Kind of like Anne’s recent experience [...]

I’m reading through Six Prayers God Always Answers by Herringshow and Schuchmann—which I’ll be reviewing in the next few days— and I ran across the following statement.
“Desperation forces us to overcome our inhibitions—we have nothing to lose.”
Granted, this quote from the book is in relation to a prayer for desperate needs, but it got me [...]

If you’re in my circle of tweets, you likely got to be a part of the birth of Chris from Canada’s newest little girl. Around lunchtime Chris sent out a tweet saying, “Ok twitter time to pray. This baby doesn’t want to come out and this family doesn’t want a C-section. We need some movement!”
Many [...]

Here are some more recent lyrics (2006) that are resonating with me for much the same reasons as “Rise Up.”
Hosanna—Brooke Fraser
Heal my heart and make it clean.
   Open up my eyes to the things unseen.
Show me how to love like You have loved me.
Break my heart for what breaks Yours.
   Everything I am, for Your Kingdom’s cause.
As [...]

I’m all for the modern worship movement, but sometimes there are old songs that say best what is in your heart. Here are some lyrics resonating in my soul today, and they remain as relevant today as when they were written in 1911.
Rise Up, O Church of God—William P. Merrill
Rise up, O Church of God!
   Have [...]