Editorial

The Principle of the Path

by Brian on June 6, 2011 · 0 comments

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I’m not an Andy Stanley fan (by any means), but I just finished reading his book The Principle of the Path. It’s excellent—very well-written and thoroughly biblical. I read it because I was looking for something to give to this year’s high school graduates, but I found myself really challenged by it.

If you have a Kindle or use the Kindle app, you can buy that version of the book right now for $2.99. I think you’ll enjoy reading it very much and you’ll learn a lot, too.

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A Uselessly Beautiful Piece of Art

by Brian on April 5, 2011 · 0 comments

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Probably a fake, but a beautiful and grand one nonetheless. I’d recommend watching it in 780p.

(HT: Scott Berkun)

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Fixing Starbucks

by Brian on March 14, 2011 · 0 comments

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Good article in the New York Times about Howard Schultz’s attempts to revitalize Starbucks.

Left unanswered, indeed unasked, is whether Schultz has the smarts and the guts to bring back Chantico.

Also, since you asked, I think the logo change was a mistake and that Starbucks’ mochas are way behind those sold by Caribou and Great Lakes Coffee, both of whom meltdown real chocolate for your mocha.

NYT: Starbucks’s Chief Tries to Recapture Its Heyday.

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Two Things I Love Come Together

by Brian on October 28, 2010 · 1 comment

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This is so unbelievable that I can’t even believe it. One of my favorite musicians, Wynton Maraslis, provides music and commentary to a video about my all time favorite player, Barry Sanders, from my favorite NFL team, the Detroit Lions.

The awesomeness of this is too much. I’m in awe. Some.

Link to said video here: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-total-access/09000d5d81bab0b3/Top-100-Barry-Sanders

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Lions Win the Superbowl!

by Brian on July 29, 2010 · 0 comments

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Oh man, as a life-long Lions fan, I can’t describe to you what a beautiful thing this is: Lions win the Superbowl! And, they beat the Colts—one of the teams I hate the most.

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She’s the Pastor’s Wife, Not the Church’s Wife

July 9, 2010

In a recent post, Brian Croft gives this advice to young/new pastor’s wives: Find another seasoned pastor’s wife to call to share openly, seek counsel, and be prayed for every week. In the same way only a pastor knows what it is like to be a pastor, so too only a pastor’s wife can know [...]

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Intelligence and Weirdness Are Not Correlates

July 8, 2010

I’m studying at Panera Bread today and just overheard two employees talking about a third person. One of them said, “She’s really smart, but weird. A lot of smart people are strange, you know, like, eccentric.” Not in my experience. In my experience, smart people aren’t weird and not-so-smart people aren’t weird. Weird people are [...]

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Celebrate This Milestone with Me

June 18, 2010

Please pause, reflect, and rejoice with me for achieving this important milestone in my life.

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Studying the Gospels and Acts Notes

May 14, 2010

I have uploaded the completed first edition of the notes for my class How to Interpret and Apply the Gospels and Acts. You can download the whole thing right here: Notes from Studying the Gospels and Acts I had uploaded the audio from the first of these classes, but the rest of the audio will [...]

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A Fresh Start

January 8, 2010

Recently, I carelessly deleted my blog of several years. It was an accident, but I’m not (too) sorry that it happened. I had been thinking about purging a lot of posts from the past and even starting over fresh. This careless accident of mine got me out of the “thinking about it” stage to the [...]

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