April 2012
2 posts
Local Thunder Podcast Episode 67 →
My song “Stars” was featured recently on The Local Thunder, and also made an appearance back in March.
Johnny Cash reads Mark 15 →
A little something for Good Friday…
March 2012
2 posts
trav is: Jesus' Healing (testimony) →
traviswithabeard:
Let me start this off by saying that I am in fact a Christian. I think that it is reasonable to believe in Jesus. If you are a non-Christian and you’re reading this, I appreciate you taking the time to read. If you don’t agree with anything I say that’s fine, I at least hope you’ll see my honesty…
“By allowing something to die when its time is due, we create the conditions...”
– Parker Palmer - Let Your Life Speak
January 2012
1 post
One Story Alone | Donald Miller's Blog →
October 2011
2 posts
Beautiful Outlaw
The personality of Jesus is rarely discussed in churches today. He’s good and loving, definitely religous. He came to show us how to live, right? What would Jesus do and all that.
But what if the person you thought was Jesus was fake?Or half-real? What if we haven’t really seen Jesus’ true personality?
Thus begins John Eldredge’s Beautiful Outlaw (here’s a sweet...
“Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you...”
– Julius Erving (via CrossFit)
September 2011
1 post
“I just try to quiet those [negative] thoughts when I have them - ‘Gee this...”
– Lindsey Corbin via Triathlon Taking a Shot: What every triathlete needs to know | Universal Sports
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
The Final Summit
What does humanity need to do, individually and collectively, to restore itself to the pathway toward successful civilization?
The two word answer to this question is revealed in Andy Andrews’ latest book, The Final Summit, which is a sequel to The Traveler’s Gift.
On the surface this book seems to be more of the same from Andy Andrews; many of the messages, illustrations and...
January 2011
1 post
“If you are wondering why there are no more C.S. Lewis’ in the world, no more...”
– The Garden of Your Mind | Donald Miller’s Blog
December 2010
2 posts
Outlive Your Life
One passage from Max Lucado’s Outlive Your Life that continues to stick with me:
A few years back, three questions rocked my world. They came from different people in the span of a month. Question 1: Had you been a German Christian during World War II, would you have taken a stand against Hitler? Question 2: Had you lived in the South during the civil rights conflict, would you have taken...
“When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a...”
– The Great Stumbling Block of the Creative Mind | Donald Miller’s Blog
November 2010
1 post
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and...”
– Frederick Buechner (Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation)
September 2010
1 post
The Butterfly Effect
Many are familiar with the concept of the butterfly effect — that a small, seemingly insignificant act can ripple through time and space and give birth to monumental change. This familiarity, however, doesn’t necessarily change the way we live; and Andy Andrews aims to change that with his book The Butterfly Effect.
This book is short and sweet, just over 100 colorful pages,...
August 2010
2 posts
My ticket to living a better story
This post is for the Donald Miller living a better story contest. If I write real good I can win a trip to the Living a Better Story seminar. Here’s hoping :)
I had this dream once that I was in a massive city, two hundred years in the future. I was at this championship football game with a sea of humanity. I knew it was the future because I asked somebody in my dream what year it was,...
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Love & War :: an honest look inside a marriage
Book reviews are somewhat rare here, but I received a review copy of John & Stasi Eldredge’s new book on marriage, Love & War.
Disarmingly real, John and Stasi venture into the deepest parts of their hearts to prove that marriage doesn’t have to be two guarded people managing their disappointment.
There are over 8,000 books on marriage listed on Amazon, with titles like Seven...
July 2010
3 posts
“Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no...”
– John Henry Newman (via CrossFit)
1 tag
First draft of a song from Psalm 48
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
1 post
My new favorite company →
Since Lala is going down at the end of the month I had to find a new favorite startup. Go watch the video on the homepage — pretty creative stuff.
February 2010
1 post
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman
December 2009
2 posts
November 2009
2 posts
A few songs… →
October 2009
2 posts
Woman dies at 99, leaves 1,400 descendents →
Pretty amazing…
September 2009
1 post
“Life is staggering and we’re just used to it”
– Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
August 2009
2 posts
Driving While Texting Is Really Dangerous →
July 2009
4 posts
One of my favorite startups →
If you haven’t heard of Lala or signed up for an account yet, you might soon…they’re now streaming music for Billboard.
On commitment and divorce
I heard on the radio last week that in 1950 approximately 12 children out of every 100 born in the US experienced divorce or a “broken home”. That number today is 60 out of 100.
The story went on to suggest that one of the effects of this is that people today don’t understand what it means to give a lifelong commitment to anyone, which is an interesting idea.
Normally...
It's only a matter of time...
Yesterday I read that Gmail was out of beta, and today I read about Google’s new operating system. Yes, world domination is not far off…
Spontaneous song that I wrote this evening, just...
June 2009
6 posts
Navy veteran recalls WWII bombing →
“Well begun is half done.”
– Aristotle
WatchThis was only 15 years ago! (via Paul Kedrosky)
Why Vision Is More Important Than Strategy |... →
May 2009
2 posts
April 2009
1 post
Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities →
Oddly inspiring…and this quote is great:
“First, ask yourself why any “high priority” item has remained unresolved in your life for more than 60 seconds. Why isn’t it done completely? Have you ever “re-assigned” “priority” to some task? Really? Because that sounds more like procrastination than management, let alone “effective” action and decisive execution. Sounds more to me like...
March 2009
1 post
WatchAmazing story of former Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch — from this article
January 2009
2 posts
“How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else’s...”
– Thomas Merton, from New Seeds of Contemplation
This should be illegal →
All that’s missing is some text in <blink> tags
December 2008
3 posts
WatchOne of the best Christmas albums I’ve heard in a while…