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  • Love.
    October 13, 2010, 2 Comments

    ______________________________________________________ Only one true saint died for our sins. And he did it willingly, having all the power of the eternal to come to his rescue, having all the reason ...

  • Hope.
    October 12, 2010, 2 Comments

    ______________________________________ photo: Daniel Daily – © Charming Beard Photography When there is comfort, there can be no hope. Hope is for the uncomfortable, the marginalized, the needy. It is a ...

  • Faith.
    October 11, 2010, No comments

    _______________________________________________ Faith is looking around and seeing God’s hand in everything… in butterfly migrations, marshmellow clouds and sheer rock faces. Looking ahead at his promises of provision… rat ...

  • wrestling within…
    September 15, 2010, No comments

    _____________________________________________________________ Photo: self-portrait circa 2004, a study break diversion during MBA school at OU. I’ve been wrestling internally for a while, specifically with the notion of what I want to ...

  • a needless tragedy…
    July 17, 2010, 2 Comments

    _______________________________________________________ photo: Pella Aquatic Center This past Wednesday, tragedy struck the FCA community, as two campers died in an accidental drowning at one of FCA’s sports camps in Pella, IA. ...

  • some critical thoughts about the speakers at WIBO…
    June 8, 2010, 2 Comments

    _________________________________________________________ photo: morning at my campsite in The Appalachians. On May 21st after a 3-day approach camping and fly fishing through the Appalachians, I arrived at Whiteboard Sessions in Virginia . ...

  • disciplined engagement…
    April 8, 2010, No comments

    _____________________________________________ photo by hjjanisch Let’s be honest. I have ADD. Because of this I am constantly distracted from doing the things I want to do, by the things that I’m ...

  • fertile creativity…
    April 7, 2010, No comments

    _______________________________________________________________ Photo by stuck in customs Fertile creativity is a creative product or process that has the ability to propagate further creativity into perpetuity… that is to say – ...

  • den of refuge…
    March 30, 2010, No comments

    _____________________________________________________________________ photo taken in a cave at The Wichita Mountains in SW Oklahoma by @donto After the jump are my notes from a talk I did last week… the notes ...