I don’t do a lot of tagged stuff. Someone tagged me a while back concerning books I read, but i just started reading again so i would’ve had horrible answers. But my sis tagged me for “7 Things About Me” so I will oblige, only I don’t know if I can come up with 7 interesting things… so here’s 7 Things I’ve Failed At in my [...]

03/26/08  - Blake Thompson had his third child, first son. Well, his wife had the boy, but blake was there for support and pictures. I especially like the one he dedicated to me. Congratulate him even if you don’t know him simply because he’s the best guy I know that is from Mississippi.
04/08/08 – The Parks board a plane for Ukraine to live among the people they wish to minister [...]

Somewhere along the line, I got all social justice on your rears. I would love to apologize… I know its not the American way, I know its not mainstream, heck, it may not even be culturally relevant. But it’s certainly Love relevant… not mushy-love, not reese’s-oh-so-good-peanut-butter-cup-love, but “most excellent way” kinda love. I’m not sure why it happened, or how it happened so quickly. I [...]

It has been roughly 37 hours and 47 minutes since my last Dr. Pepper.
I have had a headache for the last 15 of those hours.
My co-worker, whom normally sells me cans of Dr. Pepper for 25c a pop, returned from Sams at lunch with a new 24 pack roughly 22 hours ago.
Based on what had become my normal intake, I have avoided 1200 empty calories in [...]

A world where in theory everybody is a somebody is a radically different place from a world divided into somebodies and nobodies.
     – John Bowe: Introduction to Nobodies
Bowe is discussing the eye-opening topic of modern-day slavery right here in our own back yard (yes, within the borders of America) along with the darker impact of free-market/economic globalization. I’m around 2/3 through and will write my thoughts on [...]

A few weeks back in class I heard the Prof and a student talking about a book which basic premise was that we are too caught up in marketing our churches and we too often market Jesus rather than just expressing his Love… or some such… it’s a great point…
then the student said “but how can he market this book without falling into the same [...]

Here are the titles that caught my attention during my perusal of Barnes and Noble today:
God’s Problem
Lord, Save Us From Your Followers
How Soccer Explains the World
Justice in the Burbs
“If you love me… ” … you’ll buy them for me off my amazon.com wish list which you can access by clicking on the link to the right.
I have been reading a lot more lately, so the [...]

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.  -Proverbs 31:8-9
If we are to advocate and speak up, we have to know what we’re talking about. More importantly, we have to know WHO we are talking about.
The average American -and maybe average American Christian- [...]

So, yesterday my plan wasn’t to start a political rant… this is what I wanted to talk about:
Wednesday Night was supposed to be a night out with my oldest. We were going to make the trek to the American Airlines Center to take in her first Dallas Stars Hockey game. I’m not a huge hockey fan, I pay attention in passing, but we were excited. [...]