It gets me in trouble…

I was talking with my Dad today, who is reading the new Rob Bell book that I gave him for Christmas, Jesus Came to Save the Christians.  I read it last week and it brings up some big questions (honestly, it says things that I hear NO other prominent American Christian authors saying.  Stuff I [...]

Making the Call

Here’s my Christmas predicitons, feel free to add your own!
Love will defeat fear.
Life will defeat death.
Hope will defeat despair.
Freedom will defeat slavery.
The Church will defeat Hell.
Jesus will defeat Caesar (no matter which Caesar you mean).
New Orleans will defeat Orlando.
Phoenix will defeat San Antonio.
Boston will defeat L.A.
Cleveland will defeat Washington.
Portland will defeat Dallas.
Snow will defeat global [...]

Witness

This is a stunning video that I want to show everyone I possibly can.  It’s great to hear honesty and to help people understand that honest conversations are wonderful and bring joy to Jesus.  If you care at all about heaven and hell, this video will give you something to think about.
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MMC abbreviated: December 22, 2008

Today was a really unique day, so instead of a regular check-in, I’m going to list out the things I was thankful for today, and then you can guess at what my day was like.  There’ll be cash and prizes for the winners, supplied by my blog sponsors.  In other news, I have no blog [...]

Inspire

Here’s a prescription for you if you are feeling a little down, like you just can’t carry on.  Don’t loose hope, just listen to a youtube!

What will you do with this?

Cost per year to achieve basic health and nutrition for the entire world: $13 billion
Clean water for all the world: $9 billion
Basic education for the world’s children: $6 billion
Total amount the US spends on Christmas each year: $450 billion
That’s 16 years worth of food, water, and education for the world. [...]

Life Coaching: How to Contribute to a Better America

I figure after 31 years of life, it’s time for me to pass on some of the vast array of knowledge I have gathered. So, this is an ongoing series in the reorient blog. No thanks required, and feel free to add your tips to my lists.  This week came to me in email form [...]

MMC: Dec. 15, 2008

weekend in review: This weekend I lost my Chucky Cheese’s virginity.  It was really fun.  I thought there would be thousands of screaming and oozing children running around, but it really wasn’t super busy.  The kids had a riot and I hit the jackpot on one of the slot machines built for children.  Then on [...]

Blogging is Awesome

Here’s why I love blogging:  People can search for all sorts of things and end up learning from all sorts of people.  IT’s great to connect humans from wildly different areas and paths of life because of common interests.  Here’s what people were looking for (their search engine terms) when they ended up here:

puking
church sluts
worshipjournal
all [...]

Switch

It’s been a while that I had the same theme here, so I’ve decided to make a change.  I’ve got some other changes going on, so it seemed like a great time to do this too.
Now, there’s more columns, so those of you with low resolution, sorry – but this is better navigating around.
Thanks for [...]